A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans After Katrina Volume 18 by Tompkins, Christien Philmarc

A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans After Katrina Volume 18

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A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans After Katrina Volume 18 by Tompkins, Christien Philmarc

A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans After Katrina Volume 18

$131.93

A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans After Katrina Volume 18

$131.93
Author: Christien Philmarc Tompkins
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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 antiblackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.


Author: Christien Philmarc Tompkins
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780520400948

About the Author
Christien Philmarc Tompkins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

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