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Forward!: On the Freedom Dreams of Young Race Rebels | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Counterstories on Pedagogy and Policy Making: Coming of Age in the Privatized City | p. 1 |
Scorching the Earth Isn't the Way: New Orleans Before and After | p. 15 |
"We Have to Tell Our Story": Neo-Griots, Schooling, and the Legacy of Racial Resistance in the Other South | p. 17 |
Students at the Center: The Word, The River, and Education for Liberation | p. 46 |
Opening Reflection | |
Forming a Mighty River | p. 46 |
Beginnings | |
It's the Working Conditions, Not the Teachers | p. 50 |
The Power to Tell Our Stories | |
Speaking Out | |
Rain | p. 53 |
"Just Fill Me Up" | p. 56 |
The Stories in Me | p. 57 |
Commentary | |
Making Sense of Race Through Counter-Storytelling as Pedagogy | p. 59 |
Education for Liberation Rather Than Exploitation | |
Speaking Out | |
We Stand by Our Students | p. 65 |
Commentary | |
Soldiering On: Black Literate Lives Past and Present | p. 72 |
Closing Reflection | |
Toward a Critical Reading of the Privatized City | p. 76 |
Race and Reform in the Privatized City | p. 78 |
Opening Reflection | |
Capitalist Dreams | p. 78 |
State Abandonment and the Privatization of Education | |
Speaking Out | |
Forgotten by Our Government | p. 83 |
Worse Than Those Six Days | p. 85 |
Does Anybody Know? | p. 87 |
Commentary | |
Making Schools "Right" Again: Whose Choice Is the Education Market? | p. 88 |
Forceful Expulsion and the Exclusive Right to Home | |
Speaking Out | |
Missing Project | p. 93 |
Who's Holding the Gun? | p. 94 |
Commentary | |
Racial Reform on Chicago's Home Front | p. 95 |
Suppression of Veteran Teachers' Labor | |
Speaking Out | |
Passing on a Torch | p. 101 |
I Don't Want to Go to That School | p. 103 |
Commentary | |
African American Teachers in the Old South and the New | p. 104 |
Poetic Declaration of Rights to the City | |
Wake Up | p. 109 |
Closing Reflection | |
"I've Been Scarred and Battered": Warnings from Harlem, Washington, DC, and Beyond | p. 111 |
Putting All Students at the Center: Charting an Agenda for Urban Educational Transformation | p. 114 |
Opening Reflection | |
From Capitalist Dreams to Freedom Dreams | p. 114 |
Challenging the Suppression of Identity and Knowledge | |
Speaking Out | |
No Black History in School | p. 119 |
Breaking Free of Our Muted Existence | p. 122 |
Commentary | |
Mis-Education or the Development of Critical Race Consciousness: Curriculum as Heritage Knowledge | p. 126 |
Demanding Rights to the Educational Commons | |
Speaking Out | |
Honoring Community | p. 131 |
Rebuilding New Orleans, Redoing Education | p. 133 |
The Story of Z: Lessons for Teachers and Educational Policy Makers | p. 136 |
Commentary | |
Redesigning Urban Schools as Communities: A Grassroots Movement for Change | p. 138 |
Closing Reflection | |
What's at Stake If We Don't Wake Up | p. 142 |
Conclusion | p. 145 |
Schools, Cities, and Accumulation by Dispossession: A Word on the Indisposable Instruments of Liberation | p. 145 |
Contesting the Politics of Disposability Through Culture and Pedagogy | |
Speaking Out | |
Salvaging Our Culture and Our Schools | p. 153 |
I Would Not Throw It Out for Anything | p. 157 |
Afterword: Whiteness and New Orleans: Racio-Economic Analysis and the Politics of Urban Space | p. 159 |
References | p. 163 |
About the Contributors | p. 177 |
Index | p. 183 |
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