Sally A. Nuamah (Illinois Northwestern University)

Closed for Democracy

How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the high costs and suffering associated with battles to save public schools while poor and Black in America. It is valuable for understanding how repeated political battles, even those won by the poor and minoritized, can have serious negative impacts on their relationship to democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781009247443
• ISBN-10: 1009247441
• Artikelnr.: 64224435

Autorenporträt

Sally A. Nuamah is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. She is the author of the multi-award-winning book, How Girls Achieve (2019), and the recipient of over thirty additional honors including Forbes Magazine '30 under 30 in Education,' the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist-Scholar Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Closed for school, open for Business: When citizens become targets in the era of mass school closures
1. What targeted citizens Think: Racial differences in public opinion on school closures
2. Who targeted citizens Blame: Blame, approval, and black power
3. How targeted citizens fight back: Participating while poor and a minority in the policy process
4. Who wins and who loses in the era of mass school closures?: Toward a theory of collective participatory debt
Conclusion closed for school, closed for democracy: Why closing schools undermine democracy
Epilogue Close to home
Bibliography
Appendix.