A Burdensome Experiment
Title | A Burdensome Experiment PDF eBook |
Author | Christien Philmarc Tompkins |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2024-10-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520400968 |
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.
Lay My Burden Down
Title | Lay My Burden Down PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin F. Poussaint |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001-10-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780807009598 |
Through stories (including their own), interviews, and analysis of the most recent data available, Dr. Alvin Poussaint and journalist Amy Alexander offer a groundbreaking look at 'posttraumatic slavery syndrome,' the unique physical and emotional perils for black people that are the legacy of slavery and persistent racism. They examine the historical, cultural, and social factors that make many blacks reluctant to seek health care, and cite ways that everyone from the layperson to the health care provider can help.
Verbatim Report of the Proceedings of the Convention
Title | Verbatim Report of the Proceedings of the Convention PDF eBook |
Author | American Street Railway Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1028 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Electric railroads |
ISBN |
Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association
Title | Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association PDF eBook |
Author | American Transit Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1046 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Electric railroads |
ISBN |
List of individual members in 1906-13.
Distribution of Tax Burden and Expenditure Benefits
Title | Distribution of Tax Burden and Expenditure Benefits PDF eBook |
Author | G.S. Chandawat |
Publisher | Mittal Publications |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2002-05-01 |
Genre | Jodhpur (India) |
ISBN | 9788170995951 |
Black Pride and Black Prejudice
Title | Black Pride and Black Prejudice PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Sniderman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0691225613 |
Do "black pride" and "black prejudice" come hand in hand? Does taking pride in being black encourage the rejection of a common bond with other Americans? In this groundbreaking study, two leading social scientists mount a challenge to those who would answer "yes." Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza probe these questions in the only way possible--asking black Americans themselves to share their thoughts about each other, America, and other Americans. Writing in a strikingly transparent style, they open a new window on the ideas and values of real individuals who make up the black community in America today. Contrary to the rhetoric of some black leaders, Sniderman and Piazza show that African Americans overwhelmingly reject racial separatism and embrace a common framework, culture, and identity with other Americans. Although the authors find that levels of anti-Semitism are notably higher among black Americans than among white Americans, they demonstrate that taking pride in being black does not encourage blacks to be more suspicious or intolerant of others who are not black. The higher levels of anti-Semitism are instead associated with a gallery of oversimplified and accusatory ideas, including a popularized Afrocentrism and charges of vast conspiracies, that have won substantial support in the black community. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding of how African Americans, while insistent on winning racial justice, are deeply committed to the values of the American ethos and their identity as Americans.
Assuming the Burden
Title | Assuming the Burden PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Atwood Lawrence |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520243156 |
That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later."--Jacket.