Title: The new political economy of urban education : neoliberalism, race, and the right to the city /
Authors: Lipman, Pauline, 1944-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Education, Urban United States.; Multicultural education Curricula United States; Education Curricula United States; Cultural pluralism United States; Toleration United States.
Abstract: "Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of urban policies on housing, economic development, racial containment, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and 'the right to the city.' She synthesizes scholarship in critical geography, urban sociology and anthropology, education policy, and critical analyses of race to develop a powerful critique of market-based solutions to education and urban problems and a hopeful alternative. By examining the cultural politics of why and how neoliberal policies resonate with people's lived experience, Lipman pushes the analysis toward a new educational and social paradigm rooted in radical political and economic democracy"--Abstract, p. [i].
Contents: Introduction -- Neoliberal urbanism and education policy -- Dismantling public schools, displacing African Americans and Latino/as -- Racial politics of mixed-income schools and housing : moralizing poverty, building the neoliberal city -- Venture philanthropy : from government to governance / with Chris Jenkins -- Choice and empowerment : the cultural politics of charter schools -- Education and the right to the city : another world is possible and necessary.