Beyond Desegregation
The Politics of Quality in African American Schooling
- Mwalimu J. Shujaa - Southern University at New Orleans, USA
Series:
New Frontiers in Urban Education
New Frontiers in Urban Education
March 1996 | 312 pages | Corwin
This book presents a discussion among scholars about the need for, implications of and critical issues involved in looking beyond school desegregation to focus on the quality of African American schooling.
The strategy of school desegregation is examined in the context of the power used by whites to control policy-making and implementation. The use of power by African Americans to resist schooling imposed by whites to maintain oppressive social relations is also discussed.
PART ONE: RETHINKING SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXTS
Mwalimu J Shujaa
Introduction
William H Watkins
Reclaiming Historic Visions of Quality Schooling
William F Tate, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Carl E Grant
The Brown Decision Revisited
PART TWO: POLITICS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Mwalimu J Shujaa
Introduction
Judith L Failer, Anna Harvey, and Jennifer Hochschild
Only One Oar in the Water
Jennifer J Beaumont
Implementation of Court-Ordered Desegregation by District-Level School Administrators
Janet W Schofield
Promoting Positive Peer Relations in Desegregated Schools
PART THREE: SCHOOL DESEGREGATION'S IMPACT ON AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY LIFE AND LIFE IN SCHOOLS
Mwalimu J Shujaa
Introduction
Van Dempsey and George Noblit
Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation
Patricia A Edwards
Before and after School Desegregation
Ronald D Henderson et al
High Quality Schooling for African American Students
Carolyn J Thompson
African American Student Leadership
PART FOUR: QUALITY SCHOOLING FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS: VISIONS BEYOND DESEGRATION
Mwalimu J Shujaa
Introduction
Emilie V Siddle Walker
Can Institutions Care? Segregated Schooling of African American Children as a Context for Reform
Christine J Faltz and Donald O Leake
Do We Need to Desegregate All of Our Black Schools?
Mwalimu J Shujaa and Hannibal T Afrik
School Desegregation, the Politics of Culture, and the Council of Independent Black Institutions