Power, Protest, and the Public Schools: Jewish and African American Struggles in New York City

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Unlocking the Golden Door 1 and Unpacking the Great School Myth 1 New York City’s Racial and Educational Terrain 11 2 Resources, Riots, and Race: The Gary Plan and the Harlem 9 34 3 Resource Equalization and Citizenship Rights 72 4 Contesting Curriculum: Hebrew and African American History 97 5 Multicultural Curriculum, Representation, and Group Identities 130 6 Racism, Resistance, and Racial Formation in the Public Schools 154 7 The Foreseeable Split: Ocean Hill–Brownsville and Jewish and African American Relations Today 167 Conclusion: The Future of Minority Education 177 and Related Scholarship Methodological Appendix 183 Notes 189 Bibliography 215 Index 235 vii ...