"A gem.... A gripping book that conveys so much insight and
illumination into the construction of educational identities in
working-class urban communities that it must be shared."--Anita
Puckett, Director, Appalachian Studies Program, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in
the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours.
Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria
Anzaldua's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to
deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public community
charter school in a diverse, long-lived urban neighborhood on the
Ohio River. Class, race, and gender mix with age, local knowledge,
and place authenticity to create a page-turning story of grit,
humor, and sheer stubbornness. The school has grown and flourished
in the face of daunting market forces, class discrimination, and an
increasingly unfavorable national climate for charter schools.
Borderlands are tense spaces. The school is a microcosm of the
global city.
Many theoretical strands converge in this book--feminist theory,
ideas about globalization, class analysis, and accessible narrative
writing--to present some new approaches in urban anthropology. The
book is multi-voiced and nuanced in ways that provide authenticity
and texture to the real circumstances of urban lives. At the same
time, identities are threatened as community practices clash with
rules and regulations imposed by outsiders.
Since it is based on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in
the community and the city, Whose School Is It? brings unique
long-term perspectives on continuities and disjunctures incities.
Halperin's work as researcher and advocate also provides insider
perspectives that are rare in the literature of urban
anthropology.
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