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Book SynopsisThe first edition of What's Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the groundactivists, educators, young people, and familieswere trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing, school closings, and charter schools), while uncovering what race had to do with it all in the context of a supposedly post-racial United States. In the years since, the steady and grounded work of social movements has increased the visibility and critique of privatization, market-based reforms, and segregation; demonstrating the interlocking connections between racism and capitalism. In this period we have also seen an intensified attack on public education (alongside other public infrastructures) and a return to a more overt racism as we knew it. This new edition of What's Race continues the examination of neoliberal education reforms as they are being rolled back (or reworked) to track the changes and contin
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“The first edition of What’s Race Got To Do With It was critical in orienting educators and activists in the struggle against institutional racism in our schools in an era largely marked by ‘colorblind’ racism. Now, with a white supremacist in the White House, the editors have thoroughly updated the book to analyze the open attack on Black and Brown students and equip antiracists to fight back by joining the social movements—test resistance, Black Lives Matter at School, community schools, educator strikes, and others—that are turning our schools into sites of resistance.”—Jesse Hagopian, Ethnic Studies Teacher; Editor of, Teaching for Black Lives
“The editors of What's Race Got To Do With It understood the urgent need for this second edition. They help us make sense of the perils and possibilities of this moment and lay out an essential race-class analysis so we might understand and attack the many-headed hydra of educational injustice today.”—Jeanne Theoharis, Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College of CUNY; Author, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Edwin Mayorga/Ujju Aggarwal/Bree Picower: Introduction to the Second Edition – Wayne Au: High-Stakes Testing: A Tool for White Supremacy for Over 100 Years – Edwin Mayorga/Tom Liam Lynch: Data Analytics: Population Racism and the Dangers of "Objective" Educational Data – Brian Jones: Keys to the Schoolhouse: Black Teachers, Education Reform and the Growing Teacher Rebellion – Ujju Aggarwal: School Choice: Raced Rights and Neoliberal Restructuring – David Stovall: Mayoral Control: Reform, Whiteness and Critical Race Analysis of Neoliberal Educational Policy – Pauline Lipman: School Closings: Racial Capitalism, State Violence and Resistance – Terrenda White: Charter Schools: Demystifying Whiteness in a Market of "No Excuses" Charter Schools – Amy Brown: Philanthrocapitalism: Race, Class and the Nonprofit Industrial Complex in a New York City School – Rick Ayers/William Ayers: Afterword: A Letter to the Resistance – About the Editors – About the Contributors – Index.
