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Educating Harlem : a century of schooling and resistance in a Black community /
"Since the beginning of the twentieth century, education has been a mechanism of opportunity and oppression for the African American community in Harlem. In Educating Harlem, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars document and analyze how Harlemites defined and pursued their educational ambitio...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Part I. Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond
- Schooling the new Negro: progressive education, black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance
- "A serious pedagogical situation": diverging school reform priorities in depression-era Harlem
- Wadleigh High School: the price of segregation
- Part II. Organizing, writing, and teaching for reform in the 1930s through the 1950s
- Cinema for social change: The Human Relations Film Series of the Harlem Committee of the Teachers Union, 1936-1950
- Bringing Harlem to the schools: Langston Hughes's the First Book of Negroes and crafting a juvenile readership
- Part III. Divergent educational visions in the activist 1960s and 1970s
- HARYOU: an apprenticeship for young leaders
- Intermediate School 201: race, space, and modern architecture in Harlem
- Black power as educational Renaissance: the Harlem landscape
- "Harlem sophistication": community-based paraprofessional educators in central Harlem and East Harlem
- Part IV Post-civil rights setbacks and structural alternatives
- Harlem schools in the fiscal crisis
- Pursuing "real power to parents": Babette Edwards's activism from community control to charter schools
- Teaching Harlem: black teachers and the changing educational landscape of twenty-first-century central Harlem
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index.