Washington and Canada: Free Market Idealism in the Context of Social Defeat

Autor/in	Jones, Brian
Titel	Washington and Canada: Free Market Idealism in the Context of Social Defeat
Quelle	In: Journal of Negro Education, 87 (2018) 1, S.33-45 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2984
DOI	10.7709/jnegroeducation.87.1.0033
Schlagwörter	African American Education; African American History; African American Teachers; Educational Philosophy; Social Change; Free Enterprise System; Privatization; Ideology; Educational History; Educational Change; Neoliberalism; African American Influences; Public Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Teacher; Teachers; Afroamerikaner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Sozialer Wandel; Freie Wirtschaft; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Ideologie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsreform; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	The author argues that the ascendance of individualistic, free market-oriented ideas about the education of Black people is best understood as the product of the decline of collective social movements. The careers of two of the most well-known American Black educators illustrate this pattern. Booker T. Washington and Geoffrey Canada rose to prominence in similar political circumstances and made similar choices that reshaped education for Black people. The defeat of Reconstruction and of the Black Power movement are the essential contexts for Washington's and Canada's respective trajectories. By examining their careers, public statements, and relationships side by side, it is argued that their educational and political ideas represent a form of free market idealism. The similarities are striking. Both men are celebrated advocates of African American education and uplift; were funded and promoted to national attention by philanthropy; came to prominence in an era of defeat for African American social movements;and enthusiastically embraced free market ideology. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01