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Educating Harlem : a century of schooling and resistance in a Black community
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"Since the beginning of the twentieth century, education has been a mechanism of opportunity and oppression for the African American community in Harlem. In Educating Harlem, a multi-disciplinary g...
"Since the beginning of the twentieth century, education has been a mechanism of opportunity and oppression for the African American community in Harlem. In Educating Harlem, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars document and analyze how Harlemites defined and pursued their educational ambitions in the face of political and economic challenges ranging from poverty and racism to government indifference. The contributors consider the individuals, organizations, and initiatives that fostered an educational vision for Harlem, from Harlem Renaissance figures who sought to reform the curriculum to efforts in the 1970s to develop and defend auxiliary aspects of schooling in the face of severe budget cuts. Examining a wide range of actors, the volume provides new ways of thinking about social movements and activism that includes both the efforts of large-scale organizations as well as smaller-scale efforts led by parents or para-professionals. Challenging the conventional "rise-and-fall" narratives found in many urban histories, the volume instead focuses on the on-going (if not always successful) efforts of Harlem residents to imagine and implement improvements for their schools"--
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- edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell
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- English
- Contributors
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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- 1 online resource (xi, 360 pages) : illustrations, maps
- ISBNs
- 0231544049, 9780231544047, 9780231182218, 9780231182201, 0231182201
- OCLC
- on1122696695
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Part I. Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond -- Schooling the new Negro: progressive education, black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance -- "A serious pedagogical situation": diverging school reform priorities in depression-era Harlem -- Wadleigh High School: the price of segregation -- Part II. Organizing, writing, and teaching for reform in the 1930s through the 1950s -- Cinema for social change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936-1950 -- Bringing Harlem to the schools: Langston Hughes's the First Book of Negroes and crafting a juvenile readership --
- Part III. Divergent educational visions in the activist 1960s and 1970s -- HARYOU: an apprenticeship for young leaders -- Intermediate School 201: race, space, and modern architecture in Harlem -- Black power as educational Renaissance: the Harlem landscape -- "Harlem sophistication": community-based paraprofessional educators in central Harlem and East Harlem -- Part IV Post-civil rights setbacks and structural alternatives -- Harlem schools in the fiscal crisis -- Pursuing "real power to parents": Babette Edwards's activism from community control to charter schools -- Teaching Harlem: black teachers and the changing educational landscape of twenty-first-century central Harlem -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index
Subjects
- African Americans -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Discrimination in education -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Racism in education -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- School improvement programs -- New York (State) -- New York.