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Race and Education in New Orleans - Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960 (Hardcover)
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Race and Education in New Orleans - Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960 (Hardcover)
Series: Making the Modern South
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Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race
and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's
education system from the colonial period to the start of school
desegregation in 1960. This timely historical analysis reveals that
public schools in New Orleans both suffered from and maintained the
racial stratification that characterized urban areas for much of
the twentieth century. Walter C. Stern begins his account with the
mid-eighteenth-century kidnapping and enslavement of Marie Justine
Sirnir, who eventually secured her freedom and played a major role
in the development of free black education in the Crescent City. As
Sirnir's story and legacy illustrate, schools such as the one she
envisioned were central to the black antebellum understanding of
race, citizenship, and urban development. Black communities fought
tirelessly to gain better access to education, which gave rise to
new strategies by white civilians and officials who worked to
maintain and strengthen the racial status quo, even as they
conceded to demands from the black community for expanded
educational opportunities. The friction between black and white New
Orleanians continued throughout the nineteenth century and well
into the twentieth, when conflicts over land and resources sharply
intensified. Stern argues that the post-Reconstruction
reorganisation of the city into distinct black and white enclaves
marked a new phase in the evolution of racial disparity: segregated
schools gave rise to segregated communities, which in turn created
structural inequality in housing that impeded desegregation's
capacity to promote racial justice. By taking a long view of the
interplay between education, race, and urban change, Stern
underscores the fluidity of race as a social construct and the
extent to which the Jim Crow system evolved through a dynamic
though often improvisational process. A vital and accessible
history, Race and Education in New Orleans provides a comprehensive
look at the ways the New Orleans school system shaped the city's
racial and urban landscapes.
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