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Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
School Choice Today 3
My Examination of African American School Choice 4
Why Study These Examples 9
My Method 10
Reflections on My Role 12
Choice and American Hope 15
2 Schooling and Hope: The Integration Debate 17
Purposes of American Schooling 17
Integrationism and Nationalism in African American Schooling 18
Integrationism, Nationalism, and Hope 25
Complicating the Integrationalism-Nationalism Distinction 26
School Choice and the Politics of Integration 29
3 Community Control and Post-Brown Politics of Race and Nation 32
Community Control Context 33
The Short-Lived "Experiment" 35
The Dominant View of Community Control 38
Debating the Goal of Desegregation 40
American Participation and Interracial Partnership 47
School Choice in the Post-Brown Moment 52
4 Independent Schooling as Civil Rights Alternative 53
From Public to Private Control 53
Independent School Context 55
The CIBI Model 57
Schooling for Self-Determination and Survival 59
Independent Schools and Public Education 64
Historical Roots of Modern Choice Politics 69
5 Vouchers, Race, and the American Welfare State 70
The Current State of Voucher Reforms 71
Vouchers and a Local State 75
Vouchers and a Minimal State 77
Vouchers and a Progressive State 81
Vouchers and a Divided State 83
Vouchers and the State of Black Politics 86
School Choice and Debates About the State 91
6 The Founding of the West Oakland Community School 93
Politics of Schooling and Race in the 1990s 94
Politics of Schooling and Race in Oakland 100
The West Oakland Context 102
The WOCS Founding Group 103
"Race Versus Place" 105
Race andQuality Schooling, Broadly Defined 108
7 Politics, Successes, and Challenges of the West Oakland Community School 114
City and School Politics in Oakland 115
WOCS's Successes 118
WOCS's Challenges 123
The Closing of WOCS 132
Charters and the Politics of Urban Schooling 134
8 The West Oakland Community School, Charter Schooling, and Post-Civil Rights Politics 136
Partnership and Participation in American Reform 137
Debating Desegregation, Again 146
Charter Schools and the Public Sphere 150
New Terrain, Same Debates 155
9 School Choice and Hope 157
African American School Choice Since Brown 158
The Limits of School Choice 164
The Potential of school Choice 171
"America Will Be..." 172
Notes 175
References 179
Index 206
About the Author 214
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