03492nam 2200733Ia 450 991082841840332120200520144314.01-283-38314-497866133831430-8135-4980-9(CKB)3170000000046890(EBL)832034(OCoLC)769927200(SSID)ssj0000576093(PQKBManifestationID)11965906(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576093(PQKBWorkID)10553548(PQKB)10766533(MiAaPQ)EBC832034(MdBmJHUP)muse8155(Au-PeEL)EBL832034(CaPaEBR)ebr10523593(CaONFJC)MIL338314(EXLCZ)99317000000004689020090903d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPower, protest, and the public schools Jewish and African American struggles in New York City /Melissa F. Weiner1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-4772-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 inequalitAfrican AmericansEducationNew York (State)New YorkAfrican AmericansNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditionsJewsEducationNew York (State)New YorkJewsNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditionsPublic schoolsNew York (State)New YorkDiscrimination in educationNew York (State)New YorkRacism in educationNew York (State)New YorkNew York (N.Y.)Race relationsNew York (N.Y.)Social conditionsAfrican AmericansEducationAfrican AmericansSocial conditions.JewsEducationJewsSocial conditions.Public schoolsDiscrimination in educationRacism in education371.829/9607307471Weiner Melissa F1676444MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828418403321Power, protest, and the public schools4042634UNINA