Educating Harlem : : A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community /

Educating Harlem : : A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community / / ed. by Ansley T. Erickson, Ernest Morrell.

Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to provide a broad cons...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Cyna, Esther,
Erickson, Ansley T.,
Gutman, Marta,
Harbison, Thomas,
Johnson, Kimberley,
Juravich, Nick,
Kridel, Craig,
Lewer, Brittney,
Morrell, Ernest,
Perlstein, Daniel,
Perrillo, Jonna,
Phillips-Fein, Kim,
Rabin, Lisa,
Rickford, Russell,
Rogers, Bethany L.,
Taylor, Clarence,
White, Terrenda C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Erickson, Ansley T.,
Morrell, Ernest,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 9 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. 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
  • 2. "A Serious Pedagogical Situation": Diverging School Reform Priorities in Depression- Era Harlem
  • 3. Wadleigh High School: The Price of Segregation
  • PART TWO. Organizing, Writing, and Teaching for Reform in the 1930s Through the 1950s
  • 4. Cinema for Social Change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936-1950
  • 5. Bringing Harlem to the Schools: Langston Hughes's The First Book of Negroes and Crafting a Juvenile Readership
  • 6. Harlem Schools and the New York City Teachers Union
  • PART THREE. Divergent Educational Visions in the Activist 1960s and 1970s
  • 7. HARYOU: An Apprenticeship for Young Leaders
  • 8. Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem
  • 9. Black Power as Educational Renaissance: The Harlem Landscape
  • 10. "Harlem Sophistication": Community- Based Paraprofessional Educators in Central Harlem and East Harlem
  • PART FOUR. Post- Civil Rights Setbacks and Structural Alternatives
  • 11. Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis
  • 12. Pursuing "Real Power to Parents": Babette Edwards's Activism from Community Control to Charter Schools
  • 13. Teaching Harlem: Black Teachers and the Changing Educational Landscape of Twenty- First-Century Central Harlem
  • Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index

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