Educating Harlem : A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community / Ansley T. Erickson, Ernest Morrell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erickson, Ansley T., Editor.

Morrell, Ernest, 1971-2026, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Discrimination in education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Discrimination in education.

Racism in education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Racism in education.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

School improvement programs--New York (State)--New York.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation's most iconic black community.The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression. Contributors investigate the individuals, organizations, and initiatives that fostered educational visions, underscoring their breadth, variety, and persistence. Their essays span the century, from the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance through the 1970s fiscal crisis and up to the present. They tell the stories of Harlem residents from a wide variety of social positions and life experiences, from young children to expert researchers to neighborhood mothers and ambitious institution builders who imagined a dynamic array of possibilities from modest improvements to radical reshaping of their schools. Representing many disciplinary perspectives, the chapters examine a range of topics including architecture, literature, film, youth and adult organizing, employment, and city politics. Challenging the conventional rise-and-fall narratives found in many urban histories, the book tells a story of persistent struggle in each phase of the twentieth century. Educating Harlem paints a nuanced portrait of education in a storied community and brings much-needed historical context to one of the most embattled educational spaces today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Schooling the New Negro: Progressive Education, Black Modernity, and the Long Harlem Renaissance

2. "A Serious Pedagogical Situation": Diverging School Reform Priorities in Depression- Era Harlem

3. Wadleigh High School: The Price of Segregation

4. Cinema for Social Change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936-1950

5. Bringing Harlem to the Schools: Langston Hughes's The First Book of Negroes and Crafting a Juvenile Readership

6. Harlem Schools and the New York City Teachers Union

7. HARYOU: An Apprenticeship for Young Leaders

8. Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem

9. Black Power as Educational Renaissance: The Harlem Landscape

10. "Harlem Sophistication": Community- Based Paraprofessional Educators in Central Harlem and East Harlem

11. Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis

12. Pursuing "Real Power to Parents": Babette Edwards's Activism from Community Control to Charter Schools

13. Teaching Harlem: Black Teachers and the Changing Educational Landscape of Twenty- First-Century Central Harlem

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780231544047

0231544049

OCLC:

1122696695