My Examination of African American School Choice
2. Schooling and Hope: The Integration Debate
Purposes of American Schooling
Integrationism and Nationalism in African American Schooling
Integrationism, Nationalism, and Hope
Complicating the Integrationalism-Nationalism Distinction
School Choice and the Politics of Integration
3. Community Control and Post-Brown Politics of Race and Nation
Community Control Context
The Short-Lived "Experiment"
The Dominant View of Community Control
Debating the Goal of Desegregation
American Participation and Interracial Partnership
School Choice in the Post-Brown Moment
4. Independent Schooling as Civil Rights Alternative
From Public to Private Control
Independent School Context
Schooling for Self-Determination and Survival
Independent Schools and Public Education
Historical Roots of Modern Choice Politics
5. Vouchers, Race, and the American Welfare State
The Current State of Voucher Reforms
Vouchers and a Local State
Vouchers and a Minimal State
Vouchers and a Progressive State
Vouchers and a Divided State
Vouchers and the State of Black Politics
School Choice and Debates About the State
6. The Founding of the West Oakland Community School
Politics of Schooling and Race in the 1990s
Politics of Schooling and Race in Oakland
Race and Quality Schooling, Broadly Defined
7. Politics, Successes, and Challenges of the West Oakland Community School
City and School Politics in Oakland
Charters and the Politics of Urban Schooling
8. The West Oakland Community School, Charter Schooling, and Post-Civil Rights Politics
Partnership and Participation in American Reform
Debating Desegregation, Again
Charter Schools and the Public Sphere
New Terrain, Same Debates
9. School Choice and Hope
African American School Choice Since Brown
The Limits of School Choice
The Potential of school Choice
