Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities

by Kalervo N. Gulson and P. Taylor Webb

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447320077
• ISBN13: 9781447320074
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"