Whose School Is It? : : Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City / / Rhoda H. Halperin.

Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzaldúa's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (243 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • Part one CREATION Writing Urban Memory
  • One LITERACY, SCHOOL, AND IDENTITY IN AN URBAN, WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY
  • Two FOUNDING MOTHERS AND THE CREATION OF THE CHARTER
  • Three THE POLITICS OF THE CHARTER AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE
  • Four HIRING STAFF Teachers, Kin, and an Instructional Leader
  • Part two DETERRITORIALIZATION
  • Five OPENING THE SCHOOL Whose School Is It?
  • Six KIDS IN THE URBAN BORDERLAND A Collage
  • Seven CLASHING PHILOSOPHIES, CLASHING PRACTICES Follow the Leader versus Ring around the Rosie
  • Eight ACADEMIC BORDERLANDS MICROgirls, a Math Club for Girls with Stephanie Jones
  • Nine MOMENTS Collaboration and Consensus in the Borderland
  • Part three RETERRITORIALIZATION
  • Ten NEGOTIATING THE BORDERLAND
  • Eleven DETERRITORIALIZATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF RETERRITORIALIZATION with Lionel Brown and Roberta Lee
  • Twelve BORDERLANDS, FACTIONS, AND INVERTED IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
  • Thirteen TAKING BACK THE SCHOOL
  • Fourteen TRANSFORMING AND CYCLING BORDERLANDS OF COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND CLASS with Holly Winwood, Janice Glaspie, and Lionel Brown
  • EPILOGUE Reinventing Urban Memory
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX