
- 170 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Discussions of achievement gaps are commonplace in education reform, but they are rarely interrogated as a symptom of white supremacy. As an act of disruption, award-winning scholar Vajra Watson pierces through the rhetoric and provides a provocative analysis of the ways schools can become more racially inclusive. Her research is grounded in Oakland where longitudinal data demonstrated that Black families were sending their children to school, but the ideals of an oasis of learning were being met with the realities of racism, low expectations, and marginalization. As a response to this intergenerational crisis of miseducation, in 2010, the school district joined forces with community organizers, religious leaders, neighborhood elders, teachers, parents, and students to address institutionalized racism.
Seven years later, Watson shares findings from her investigation into the school district's journey towards justice. What she creates is a wholly original work, filled with penetrating portraits that illuminate the intense and intimate complexities of working towards racial equity in education. As a formidable case study, this research scrutinizes how to reconfigure organizational ecosystems as spaces that humanize, heal, and harmonize. Emerging from her scholarship is a bold, timely, and hopeful vision that paves the way for transformative schooling.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Pedro Noguera
- Preface: The Person behind the Pen
- Acknowledgment
- 1 The Research Journey
- 2 Remember, Reclaim, Reimagine
- 3 Rituals of Resistance
- 4 An Ontological Fight for Freedom
- 5 Institutionalized Racism in Oakland Unified School District
- 6 Christopher Chatmon
- 7 Unapologetically Black
- 8 Pedagogy of Patience
- 9 Educational Empowerment
- 10 Charles Wilson
- 11 Superintendent Antwan Wilson
- 12 Obasi Davis
- 13 Engage, Encourage, and Empower School Districts to Transform
- 14 Bold Horizons
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Bibliography
- Index