Race in the schoolyard pdf

While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both expressed and hidden, conveys many racial lessons. While teachers and other school community members verbally deny the salience of race, she illustrates how it does influence the way they understand the world, interact with each other, and teach children.

This eye-opening text is important reading for educators, parents, and scholars alike. Table of Contents. Frontmatter pp.

Contents pp. List of Figures and Tables pp. Acknowledgments pp. Examining the Color Line in Schools pp. Never was that role more apparent than in when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings.

Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike?

Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs —as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination. Get A Copy.

Hardcover , pages. Published October 5th by University of Chicago Press. More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Ghosts in the Schoolyard , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Ghosts in the Schoolyard. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 24, Erica rated it it was amazing. This is so well written.

I am biased in my praise for this book because I am a CPS teacher, and have been for 8 years. My former school was on the list of schools slated to close. I attended many a public meeting and watched teachers, families, students, and community members beg and plead to keep their school open. So I can say that Eve Ewing hits every emotion that happened during that time period, and explains what it was like to an outsider.

These schools are closed. Aug 30, Esther Espeland rated it it was amazing. Tbh a must read!! Especially if you live in Chicago or work in education or have received public education. I thought it was gripping and readable so I just zoomed through it! Could not put it down! Rly a great opportunity to learn more bronzeville history since that is the neighborhood I work in. View 2 comments. Can we all agree that Eve Ewing is amazing? Jul 10, Leah Rachel von Essen rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction.

See my review in the South Side Weekly. Jan 30, Kayla rated it it was amazing. May 22, Rosemarie Donzanti rated it really liked it. This book specifically focused on the closings of 50 elementary schools within Bronzeville. The community banded together to protest and fight the closings as they felt their voices and culture were being ignored.

While I really liked the learnings The Chicago Real Estate Board CREB actively encouraged restrictive covenants private agreements between property owners and Real Estate Agents that homes were not to be sold to or occupied by black people , sending advocates and speakers across the city to praise the strategy to white property owners. View 1 comment. Nov 10, Bean rated it it was amazing Shelves: afro-pessimism , black-authors , favorites , good-grief , your-next-progressive-book-club , beans-reviews , black-liberation , own-voices.

Most compelling is how Ewing centers the perspectives of those most impacted by school closures, uplifting their voices by transcribing public comments and interview testimonies. Also an accomplished poet, Ewing uses lyrical prose as deftly as statistical data to engage general readers and researchers alike. I knew the Chicago Public School system was bad, but this opened my eyes to a whole new world of gentrification, racism, elitism, and more in one of the most segregated cities in America.

What is terrifying is the way nothing has changed -- from protests in the s for black children to go to better schools to now -- much is the same. Great, easy must-read. Feb 18, Megan O'Hara rated it really liked it Shelves: my-big-fat-catalogue. Dec 01, Kiara rated it it was amazing Shelves: edubooks , grad-school.

Beautiful and brilliant. An incredible work of sociology. Jan 01, Melissa rated it it was amazing. View all 5 comments. May 13, Wealhtheow rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction , historical , sociology , race. A sociologist examines the Chicago public school closings, bringing in the history of Chicago social movements, city systems, neighborhood reputations It's a fascinating and disturbing topic.

I think the book is hampered a bit by being very clearly graduate work--Chapter 4 in particular reads like a chapter from an academic's dissertation or thesis.

A lot of really interesting points are for some reason relegated to the notes section. And by interesting points I mean some of the endnotes A sociologist examines the Chicago public school closings, bringing in the history of Chicago social movements, city systems, neighborhood reputations And by interesting points I mean some of the endnotes are literally 2 pages of topical information and analysis that I think would've fit perfectly into the chapters.

Also, I think this book missed out by not including anything about the Chicago Teachers' union and their knock-down drag-out fight with Mayor Emanuel, very little about how budgets were doled out, and barely mentioned the impact of charter schools. As an explanation for what caused the school closings, this felt patchy, but the chapters on people's responses to the school closings were rich, meaty, and informative.

Really good sociological examination of the Chicago Public School system and the historical factors that lead to the specific circumstances of schools that were slated to be closed in Ewing wanted to look into the phenomenon she saw where schools were determined to be "failing" and yet the families who used those schools would fight against those closures. As I said, I had read what is basically chapter two for a sociology class but everything else was new to me. I am a sociology major and Really good sociological examination of the Chicago Public School system and the historical factors that lead to the specific circumstances of schools that were slated to be closed in I am a sociology major and I'm very interested in educational sociology so this book was right up my alley.

If you're at all invested in the current state of public schools, I would recommend this book. Sep 26, Carol Tilley rated it it was amazing Shelves: race , education , sociology. Feb 26, Alissa rated it really liked it Shelves: race-and-justice , professional-development.

I would highly recommend it to those interested in inequity in our school systems. And this, in part, is why people fight so hard for their schools: because the fight is actually about a great deal more than just one building. Describe the connection issue. Toggle navigation Back to results. Race in the schoolyard : negotiating the color line in classrooms and communities.

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