4.24.15: Philly #WhatsRace Book Conversation 630p @ Wooden Shoe Books
A TAGPhilly 6th Annual Education for Liberation Conference Event
#BlackLivesMatter: Centering Racial Justice in Our Fight for Public Education
Friday, April 24, 2015
#WhatsRace Book Conversation
Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street
630 pm
Our Conversation:
Join chapter author, Amy Brown, and book co-editors Bree Picower & Edwin Mayorga, in a conversation about What’s Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. The speakers will be specifically looking at Tag Philly’s Conference theme: #BlackLivesMatter: Centering Racial Justice in Our Fight for Public Education.
Time: 6:30p-8p
Location: Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19147
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Some light food will be provided.
Copies of the book will be on sale for $30.
Any donations or proceeds will go to support to TAGPhilly.
Questions: Edwin Mayorga emayorg1@swarthmore.edu
This event is endorsed by Teacher Action Group Philadelphia (TAGPhilly), Caucus of Working Educators (WE), JustMaybeCo., & the Dept. of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College
*Caucus of Working Educators Happy Hour*
Come to happy hour before the book talk
Time: 430-6p
Location: Tattooed Mom
530 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19147
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Book Description:
“In light of ALL that is happening in American society, it stretches credulity to think that there are still people who think that we are BEYOND race. This collection underscores the way that race is implicated in every aspect of schooling and the editors and contributors take bold, empirically grounded positions that assert once and for all that race has EVERYTHING to do with education and schooling.”
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice into “It’s race!” vs. “It’s class!” camps. What’s Race Got To Do With It? brings together these frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation. The group of scholar activist authors in this volume were selected because of their cutting-edge racial economic analysis, understanding of corporate reform, and involvement in grassroots social movements. Each author applies a racial economic framework to inform and complicate our analysis of how market-based reforms collectively increase wealth inequality and maintain White supremacy. In accessible language, contributors trace the historical context of a single reform, examine how that reform maintains and expands racial and economic inequality, and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms. By analyzing current reforms through this dual lens, those concerned with social justice are better equipped to struggle against this constellation of reforms in ways that unite rather than divide.