Model Schools in the Model City (eBook)

Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital

Amber N. Wiley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
660 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-9184-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making that dream a reality. Model Schools in the Model City chronicles how Black Washingtonians used public education as a means of racial uplift in the face of entrenched white resistance and repeated assertions of white supremacy. For Black Washingtonians, it was the school building—a permanent structure, made of sturdy material—that was the physical realization of Black liberation, agency, and the right to exist as citizens of the United States. Furthermore, it was the school building that stood as the litmus test to whether Black Washingtonians’ citizenship was perpetually guaranteed; thus, they fought with all the tools at their disposal to maintain access to quality education in the nation’s capital. In this book, Wiley recounts the untold story of Black Washingtonians’ educational ambitions, especially as they were manifested in the schools themselves.

Autor

Amber N. Wiley is a presidential associate professor in historic preservation and the former Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at the University of Pennsylvania.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Zusatzinfo: 141 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: African American History • Architecture • Association for the Study of African American Life and History • Center for the Preservation of Civil Rites Sites • Educational planning • history of education • history of public education • History of Washington D.C. • National Organization of Minority Architects • Public Education • race and education • School architecture • School Design • Society for American City and Regional Planning History • Society of Architectural Historians • University of Pittsburgh Press • Urban History Association • Vernacular Architecture Forum • World Heritage USA
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-9184-5 / 0822991845
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-9184-7 / 9780822991847