The last Black public high school in Oakland : what is at stake with the relationship between school closures and Black administered and attended schools
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While research has documented the more tangible causes and consequences of school closures in majority-Black neighborhoods, little explores the equally significant consequences of fear of school dissolution and closure on Black children, teachers, and school communities, as caused by Black physical and cultural displacement. This dissertation argues that public non-charter schools, where Black children are educated and Black educators labor, operate under persistent threat of closure and, beyond that threat, are indeed the schools into the 21st century most likely to be shuttered. This phenomenon of school dissolution is placed in conversation with large structural scales of displacement through a novel longitudinal nationwide quantitative study which examines the likelihood that majority Black schools are closed as compared to their non-majority Black counterparts. Further, thematic analysis and ethnographic research methods were utilized to explore one school district's disappearing African American community, the impact on its last majority-Black public high school, and the developed narratives about why the school has been drastically under enrolled - ultimately, threatening its long-term viability. Finally, this dissertation challenges the notion that Black administered and attended (BAA) schools, especially those operating under the threat of closure, do not offer exceptional instruction via interrogating how the conditions of Black displacement shape and inform a veteran African American teacher's pedagogical choices.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Greene, Danielle Marie |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ball, Arnetha F, 1950- |
| Degree supervisor | Banks, Adam J. (Adam Joel) |
| Thesis advisor | Ball, Arnetha F, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Banks, Adam J. (Adam Joel) |
| Thesis advisor | Rosa, Jonathan |
| Thesis advisor | Pearman, Francis A |
| Degree committee member | Rosa, Jonathan |
| Degree committee member | Pearman, Francis A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Danielle Marie Greene. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jj703yf4040 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Danielle Marie Greene
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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