A Burdensome Experiment

Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina

Christien Philmarc Tompkins

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University of California Press
22 October 2024

Social issues & processes; Ethnic studies; Sociology: work & labour; Social & cultural anthropology; Schools

Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the ""backbone"" of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent antiblackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.

By: Christien Philmarc Tompkins
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 18
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520400948
ISBN 10: 0520400941
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 22 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christien Philmarc Tompkins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.