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Summary:

"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the 'backbone' of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent anti-blackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Human capital
• Professionalism
• Racial arbiters
• Pitching race
• Substituting race
• Epilogue : what do you believe in?.

Author/Creator:

Tompkins, Christien Philmarc, 1985- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A burdensome experiment: race, labor, and schools in New Orleans after Katrina [by Tompkins, C.P.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Burdensome experiment [by Tompkins, C.P.] (Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] — ISBN 9780520400948; LCCN 2024013151)

Related Series:

Atelier (Oakland, Calif.); [volume] 18

Subjects:

Privatization in education — Louisiana — New Orleans — 21st century

2000-2099

Privatization in education

Louisiana — New Orleans

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2806.36 .T667 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780520400962 (ebook)
0520400968
9780520400948 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024013152

OCLC Numbers:

1440773097