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Book SynopsisSartre and No Child Left Behind provides a rich ethnographic account of studentsâ psychological and emotional experiences of impoverished school settings, a much-ignored dimension of urban schooling. Darian Parker engages with a new anthropological theory of human consciousness to explore these studentsâ experiences.
Trade ReviewWhat choices are available for ethnic minority students in our inner city schools? What forms of being are possible for students subjected to harsh institutional structures, ideologies of deficit thinking, racist symbolic orders, and bureaucratic totalitarianism? These questions lie at the heart of Darian Parker's probing existential-psychoanalytic-anthropological critique of contemporary apartheid educational practices in the United States. In the spirit of Paulo Freire’s best work, Parker provides a deeply moving, politically sharp, and existentially detailed description of the phenomenology of educational dehumanization. A must read for social justice educators and researchers interested in the question of education, freedom, and the struggle for human dignity. -- Tyson E. Lewis, University of North Texas
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Dedication Disclaimer Introduction Chapter 1. Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology Chapter 2. From Plessy to NCLB: The “Peculiar” Practice of Segregation in American Public Education Chapter 3. Four Dimensionality and the Ironic Chapter 4. The Bad School Chapter 5. Androids and Infernal Feedback Loops Chapter 6. The State ELA Examination Chapter 7. Mr. Wheeler Chapter 8. Being Toward Eradication: School Closing and Gentrification Chapter 9. Recommendations: Revising Legal Discourses, Educational Policies and Systems of Accountability Bibliography About the Author
