Uncivil rights : teachers, unions, and race in the battle for school equity / Jonna Perrillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrillo, Jonna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Educational equalization.

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

African Americans.

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

Racism in education.

Teachers--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Teachers.

Civil rights movements--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Teachers--Civil rights--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Teachers' unions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Teachers' unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo's Uncivil Rights, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.While movements for teachers' rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways the

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Building a "New Social Order": Teachers, Teacher Unions, and Equity in the Great Depression

2. Muscular Democracy: Teachers and the War on Prejudice, 1940 -1950

3. Organizing the Oppressed Teacher: Teachers' Rights in the Cold War

4. "An Educator's Commitment": Professionalism and Civil Rights in the 1960s

5. From Teachers' Rights to Teacher Power

Conclusion: Moving beyond Rights? Teacher Professionalism and Civil Rights in the Era of No Child Left Behind

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613586964

9780226660738

0226660737

9781280491733

1280491736

OCLC:

793511383