Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown
This provocative book helps us to make sense of why and how African Americans participate in and lead school-choice reforms. The author argues that regardless of the success or failure of these reforms, they represent an important political phenomenon in American schooling and in African American history and politics. The first section of the book focuses on African American school choice in the post-Brown period, examining how these reforms became a response to desegregation politics and...
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How can school choice be a form of both giving up on public education and a form of hope and faith in American schooling? This book helps us to make sense of why and how African Americans participate in and lead school choice reforms. The author argues that regardless of the success or failure of these reforms, they represent an important political phenomenon in American schooling and in African American history and politics. The first section of the book focuses on African American school choice in the post-Brown period, examining how these reforms became a response to desegregation politics and policies. The second section focuses on the author's experience as a co-founder of a charter school in Oakland, California at a time when Oakland's public schools were found to be severely under-serving African-American students.
Acknowledgments ix1 Introduction 1School Choice Today 3My Examination of African American School Choice 4Why Study These Examples 9My Method 10Reflections on My Role 12Choice and American Hope 152 Schooling and Hope: The Integration Debate 17Purposes of American Schooling 17Integrationism and Nationalism in African American Schooling 18Integrationism, Nationalism, and Hope 25Complicating the Integrationalism-Nationalism Distinction 26School Choice and the Politics of Integration 293 Community Control and Post-Brown Politics of Race and Nation 32Community Control Context 33The Short-Lived "Experiment" 35The Dominant View of Community Control 38Debating the Goal of Desegregation 40American Participation and Interracial Partnership 47School Choice in the Post-Brown Moment 524 Independent Schooling as Civil Rights Alternative 53From Public to Private Control 53Independent School Context 55The CIBI Model 57Schooling for Self-Determination and Survival 59Independent Schools and Public Education 64Historical Roots of Modern Choice Politics 695 Vouchers, Race, and the American Welfare State 70The Current State of Voucher Reforms 71Vouchers and a Local State 75Vouchers and a Minimal State 77Vouchers and a Progressive State 81Vouchers and a Divided State 83Vouchers and the State of Black Politics 86School Choice and Debates About the State 916 The Founding of the West Oakland Community School 93Politics of Schooling and Race in the 1990s 94Politics of Schooling and Race in Oakland 100The West Oakland Context 102The WOCS Founding Group 103"Race Versus Place" 105Race andQuality Schooling, Broadly Defined 1087 Politics, Successes, and Challenges of the West Oakland Community School 114City and School Politics in Oakland 115WOCS's Successes 118WOCS's Challenges 123The Closing of WOCS 132Charters and the Politics of Urban Schooling 1348 The West Oakland Community School, Charter Schooling, and Post-Civil Rights Politics 136Partnership and Participation in American Reform 137Debating Desegregation, Again 146Charter Schools and the Public Sphere 150New Terrain, Same Debates 1559 School Choice and Hope 157African American School Choice Since Brown 158The Limits of School Choice 164The Potential of school Choice 171"America Will Be..." 172Notes 175References 179Index 206About the Author 214
