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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 anti-blackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.
By:
Christien Philmarc Tompkins Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Volume: 18 Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 363g ISBN:9780520400948 ISBN 10: 0520400941 Series:Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Pages: 278 Publication Date:22 October 2024 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Christien Philmarc Tompkins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
