Expelling Public Schools : How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark / John Arena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arena, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization in education--Social aspects--United States.

Privatization in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Examining the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey-a conflict that is raging in cities across the country-Expelling Public Schools is a critique of Black urban regime politics and the way in which antiracist messaging obscures real class divisions, interests, and ideological diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: Whip Them Back into Line

Part I: Movement Foundations

Chapter 1. Whose Schools, Whose City?

Part II: The Movement from Above

Chapter 2. Regime Change: Cory Booker, Philanthrocapitalism, and the New Civil Rights Movement of Our Day, 1996-2006

Chapter 3. Booker in Power: Reconstructing the State and the Limits of Neoliberal Antiracism, 2006-2012

Part III: The Movement from Below

Chapter 4. Rebel City?: Newark's Education Movement from Below, 2010-2013

Chapter 5. The Clash of Disruptors: Who Would Prevail? 2013-2014

Part IV: Containing the Movement

Chapter 6. Ras Baraka's Self-Determination Politics: The First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Farce, Summer-Fall 2014

Chapter 7. We All Become Mayor?: Movement Reinvention and the Ousting of Cami Anderson, Spring-Summer 2015

Chapter 8. Making Newark Governable Again: Merging Movements through Racial Democracy, 2015-2018

Conclusion: Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Research Methods

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Arena, John Expelling Public Schools

ISBN:

1-4529-7004-1

1-4529-7003-3

OCLC:

1373844158