Name: Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (en Inglés)
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Author: Eve L. Ewing
ISBN: 9780226526164

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Eve L. Ewing

Editorial

University of Chicago Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.1 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9780226526164

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Relativo a los afroamericanos
Estudios étnicos
Educación
Historia de américa

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (en Inglés)

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"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools." That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures--they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 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? Ewing's answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. 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.

Eve L. Ewing

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Eve Louise Ewing, conocida como Eve L. Ewing, es una escritora, socióloga y académica estadounidense nacida en Chicago. Doctora en Educación por la Universidad de Harvard y profesora en la Universidad de Chicago, su trabajo cruza investigación, arte y activismo cultural. Su obra aborda temas como raza, educación y desigualdad, combinando mirada académica con una voz literaria potente. Además de su labor universitaria, ha participado activamente en proyectos comunitarios y culturales, consolidándose como una figura influyente en el pensamiento contemporáneo.

Es autora de libros como Electric Arches, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, 1919 y la novela juvenil Maya and the Robot, además de incursionar en el cómic con títulos de Marvel como Ironheart y Black Panther. Su primer libro recibió reconocimientos como el Alex Award de la American Library Association y el Norma Farber First Book Award, destacando su impacto tanto en la literatura como en la crítica social. Su obra se caracteriza por fusionar poesía, narrativa y análisis cultural con una mirada innovadora y comprometida.

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