A Burdensome Experiment : Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tompkins, Christien Philmarc, 1985-

Series:

Atelier (Oakland, Calif.)

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series ; v.18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization in education--Louisiana--New Orleans--21st century.

Privatization in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the "backbone" of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent antiblackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Human Capital

2. Professionalism

3. Racial Arbitrage

4. Pitching Race

5. Substituting Race

Epilogue: What Do You Believe In?

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520400962

0520400968