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Unsettling Choice - Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
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How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on
crisis, precarity, and exclusion  What do universal rights
to public goods like education mean when codified as individual,
private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually not
about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and
exclusion that choice engenders—guaranteeing a system of winners
and losers? Unsettling Choice addresses such questions through a
compelling ethnography that illuminates how one path of neoliberal
restructuring in the United States emerged in tandem with, and in
response to, the Civil Rights movement. Â Drawing on
ethnographic research in one New York City school district,
Unsettling Choice traces the contestations that surfaced when, in
the wake of the 2007–2009 Great Recession, public schools
navigated austerity by expanding choice-based programs. Ujju
Aggarwal argues that this strategy, positioned as “saving public
schools,” mobilized mechanisms rooted in market logics to recruit
families with economic capital on their side, thereby solidifying a
public sphere that increasingly resembled the private—where
contingency was anticipated and rights for some were marked by
intensified precarity for poor and working-class Black and Latinx
families. Â As Unsettling Choice shows, these struggles over
public schools—one of the last remaining universal public goods
in the United States—were entrapped within neoliberal regimes
that exceeded privatization and ensured exclusion even as they were
couched in language of equity, diversity, care, and rights. And yet
this richly detailed and engaging book also tracks an architecture
of expansive rights, care, and belonging built among poor and
working-class parents at a Head Start center, whose critique of
choice helps us understand how we might struggle for—and
reimagine—justice, and a public that remains to be won. Â
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General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Ujju Aggarwal
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-1566-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5179-1566-X |
Barcode: |
9781517915667 |
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