Building Power, Breaking Power
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Black history in Louisiana
Black-led unions
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charter schools
civil rights movement in Louisiana
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decline of organized labor
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Hurricane Katrina
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Louisiana history
neoliberalism in education
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participatory democracy
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privatization in education
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teachers unions in the South
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- ISBN 9781469678214
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the South's conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana. Jesse Chanin argues that UTNO accomplished and maintained its strength through strong community support, addressing a Black middle-class political agenda, internal democracy, and drawing on the legacy and tactics of the civil rights movement by combining struggles for racial and economic justice, all under Black leadership and with a majority women and Black membership. However, the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina provided the state government and local charter school advocates with the opportunity to remake the school system and dismantle the union. Authorities fired 7,500 educators, marking the largest dismissal of Black teaching staff since Brown v. Board of Education.
Chanin highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of UTNO, as well as the damaging effects of the charter school movement on educators.
Chanin highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of UTNO, as well as the damaging effects of the charter school movement on educators.
Jesse Chanin is a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University's Coalition for Compassionate Schools, where she facilitates youth participatory action research.
