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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828418403321

Autore

Weiner Melissa F

Titolo

Power, protest, and the public schools : Jewish and African American struggles in New York City / / Melissa F. Weiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-38314-4

9786613383143

0-8135-4980-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

371.829/9607307471

Soggetti

African Americans - Education - New York (State) - New York

African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Jews - Education - New York (State) - New York

Jews - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions

Public schools - New York (State) - New York

Discrimination in education - New York (State) - New York

Racism in education - New York (State) - New York

New York (N.Y.) Race relations

New York (N.Y.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

New York City's racial and educational terrain -- Resources, riots, and race: the Gary plan and the Harlem 9 -- Resource equalization and citizenship rights -- Contesting curriculum: Hebrew and African American history -- Multicultural curriculum, representation, and group identities -- Racism, resistance, and racial formation in the public schools -- The foreseeable split: Ocean Hill-Brownsville and Jewish and African American relations today.

Sommario/riassunto

Accounts of Jewish immigrants usually describe the role of education in  helping youngsters earn a higher social position than their parents.  Power, Protest, and the Public Schools argues that New York City schools  did not serve as pathways to mobility for Jewish or African American  students. Instead, at different points in the city's history,  



politicians and administrators erected similar racial barriers to social  advancement by marginalizing and denying resources that other students  enjoyed. It concludes by considering how today's Hispanic and Arab  children face similar inequalit