Todd-Breland, E. (2018). A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s. Chapel H
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Todd-Breland, E. (2018). A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 344 pp. ISBN: 9781469646589 (Paperback) A. C. Nikolaidis 1 Accepted: 8 October 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In her recent book A Political Education, Elizabeth Todd-Breland tells the story of black education reform in Chicago since the modern civil rights movement. In doing so, she demonstrates how black educators and communities have ceaselessly fought against white supremacist structures that perpetuate racial and class disparities, and shows how their victories, though important, were often undermined by these same structures. More importantly, Todd-Breland uncovers the forgotten stories and contributions of black women educators and activists at the heart of these movements that were heretofore disregarded in favor of those of their male counterparts. Writing against patriarchal norms that historically sidestep women’s contributions, Todd-Breland organizes her historical analysis around the stories of these women. Keywords A Political Education . Black achievement . Chicago education reform .
Chicago public schools . Black education
In her recent book A Political Education, Elizabeth Todd-Breland tells the story of black education reform in Chicago since the modern civil rights movement. In doing so, she demonstrates how black educators and communities have ceaselessly fought against white supremacist structures that perpetuate racial and class disparities, and shows how their victories, though important, were often undermined by these same structures. More importantly, Todd-Breland uncovers the forgotten stories and contributions of black women educators and activists at the heart of these movements that
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Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University, 29 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Journal of African American Studies
were heretofore disregarded in favor of those of their male counterparts. Writing against patriarchal norms that historically sidestep women’s contributions, Todd-Breland organizes her historical analysis around the stories of these women. The first part of the book is dedicated to the major reform efforts that embody what Todd-Breland calls “the politics of black achievement,” a framework embraced by black reformers and communities that rejected the deficit discourse of “inferiority and pathology” and demonstrated the capability of black students to succeed. Motivated by the injustice of chronically under-funded and under-resourced black schools, Rosie Simpson organized efforts to push for desegregation of Chicago Public Schools (CPS). However, her efforts were largely undermined by white local political leaders, administrators, and parents who adopted a deficit discourse sanctioned by the government’s Moynihan and Coleman reports. In response, educators such as Barbara Sizemore began to pursue altern
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