Educating Harlem : a century of schooling and resistance in a Black community /
"Since the beginning of the twentieth century, education has been a mechanism of opportunity and oppression for the African American community in Harlem. In Educating Harlem, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars document and analyze how Harlemites defined and pursued their educational ambitio...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Erickson, Ansley T., editor. Morrell, Ernest, 1971- editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell
- Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond. Schooling the new Negro : progressive education,Black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance / Daniel Perlstein ; "A serious pedagogical situation" : diverging school reform priorities in Depression-era Harlem / Thomas Harbison ; Wadleigh High School : the price of segregation / Kimberley Johnson
- Organizing, writing, and teaching for reform in the 1930s through the 1950s. Cinema for social change : The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936-1950 / Lisa Rabin and Craig Kridel ; Bringing Harlem to the schools : Langston Hughes's The First Book of Negroes and crafting a juvenile readership / Jonna Perrillo
- Divergent educational visions in the activist 1960s and 1970s. HARYOU : an apprenticeship for young leaders / Ansley T. Erickson ; Intermediate School 201 : race, space, and modern architecture in Harlem / Marta Gutman ; Black power as educational Renaissance : the Harlem landscape / Russell Rickford ; "Harlem sophistication" : community-based paraprofessional educators in central Harlem and East Harlem / Nick Juravich
- Post-civil rights setbacks and structural alternatives. Harlem schools in the fiscal crisis / Kim Phillips-Fein and Esther Cyna ; Pursuing "real power to parents" : Babette Edwards's activism from community control to charter schools / Brittney Lewer ; Teaching Harlem : Black teachers and the changing educational landscape of twenty-first-century central Harlem / Bethany L. Rogers and Terrenda C. White.
- Conclusion / Ernest Morrell and Ansley T. Erickson.