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Educating Harlem - A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community (Hardcover)
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Educating Harlem - A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community (Hardcover)
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Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site
for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very
schools they attended sometimes acted as obstacles to black
flourishing. Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary
group of scholars to provide a broad consideration of the history
of schooling in perhaps the nation's most iconic black community.
The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and
pursued educational justice for their children and community
despite consistent neglect and structural oppression. Contributors
investigate the individuals, organizations, and initiatives that
fostered educational visions, underscoring their breadth, variety,
and persistence. Their essays span the century, from the Great
Migration and the Harlem Renaissance through the 1970s fiscal
crisis and up to the present. They tell the stories of Harlem
residents from a wide variety of social positions and life
experiences, from young children to expert researchers to
neighborhood mothers and ambitious institution builders who
imagined a dynamic array of possibilities from modest improvements
to radical reshaping of their schools. Representing many
disciplinary perspectives, the chapters examine a range of topics
including architecture, literature, film, youth and adult
organizing, employment, and city politics. Challenging the
conventional rise-and-fall narratives found in many urban
histories, the book tells a story of persistent struggle in each
phase of the twentieth century. Educating Harlem paints a nuanced
portrait of education in a storied community and brings much-needed
historical context to one of the most embattled educational spaces
today.
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