The national context: Neoliberal education reform, race, and resistance -- The reformers: Race, privilege, and saving children from disaster -- The dispossessed: Neighborhood activists beating back gentrification -- Fragile alliances: Cross-racial solidarity and conflict in community claims to the neighborhood school -- No permanent enemies, no permanent allies: The politics of reformer-community nonprofit partnerships.
Summary:
"The book provides a rich description of four movement sectors in one city all claiming to fight for educational justice. It combines theoretical insight from studies of urban reform, neoliberalism, education and social movements, and integrates rich ethnographic detail and activist narratives to illustrate education movement victories and defeats"-- Provided by publisher.
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