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Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

Kalervo N Gulson author P Taylor Webb author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Published:26th Jul '17

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The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula.

It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school – violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices.

Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities.

"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London

ISBN: 9781447320074

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160 pages