Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: education policy and multicultural cities;
Policy events;
Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto;
The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism;
'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school;
Difference and recognition;
Policy events, race and the future of the city.
