Erickson / Morrell Educating Harlem

A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54404-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erickson, Ansley T.

Morrell, Ernest

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction, by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell
Part I. Debating What and How Harlem Students Learn in the Renaissance and Beyond
1. Schooling the New Negro: Progressive Education, Black Modernity, and the Long Harlem Renaissance, by Daniel Perlstein
2.“A Serious Pedagogical Situation”: Diverging School Reform Priorities in Depression Era Harlem, by Thomas Harbison
3. Wadleigh High School: The Price of Segregation, by Kimberley Johnson
Part II. Organizing, Writing, and Teaching for Reform in the 1930s Through 1950s
4. Cinema for Social Change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936–1950, by Lisa Rabin and Craig Kridel
5. Bringing Harlem to the Schools: Langston Hughes’s The First Book of Negroes and Crafting a Juvenile Readership, by Jonna Perrillo
6. Harlem Schools and the New York City Teachers Union, by Clarence Taylor
Part III. Divergent Educational Visions in the Activist 1960s and 1970s
7. HARYOU: An Apprenticeship for Young Leaders, by Ansley T. Erickson
8. Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem, by Marta Gutman
9. Black Power as Educational Renaissance: The Harlem Landscape, by Russell Rickford
10. “Harlem Sophistication”: Community-based Paraprofessional Educators in Central Harlem and East Harlem, by Nick Juravich
Part IV. Post–Civil Rights Setbacks and Structural Alternatives to Public Schooling
11. Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis, by Kim Phillips-Fein and Esther Cyna
12. Pursuing “Real Power to Parents”: Babette Edwards’s Activism from Community Control to Charter Schools, by Brittney Lewer
13. Teaching Harlem: Black Teachers and the Changing Educational Landscape of Twenty-First Century Central Harlem, by Bethany L. Rogers and Terrenda C. White
Conclusion, by Ernest Morrell and Ansley T. Erickson
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ansley T. Erickson is associate professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (2016).

Ernest Morrell is the Coyle Professor in Literacy Education, director of the Center for Literacy Education, and a faculty member in the English and Africana Studies departments at the University of Notre Dame. His many books include Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools (2013).