Cutting School with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Feb 22, 2018 5:30 pm
Location
Takoma
235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012
Feb 22, 2018 5:30 pm
Takoma
Please join Busboys and Poets Books for an evening with Dr. Noliwe M. Rooks. Noliwe is the director of American studies at Cornell University and was for ten years the associate director of African American studies at Princeton University. A cultural critic whose work has appeared in TIME Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, The Hill and the Huffington Post, her work explores the ways that economics, culture and politics are impacted by, as well as impact the working class, and people of color, she is the author of White Money/Black Power, Hair Raising, Ladies Pages, and Cutting School.
She will be discussing her new book "Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation and the End of Public Education. This event will be an opportunity for an interactive discussion of the unequal impact of current educational and business policies summed up under the heading of “school choice” and inclusive of vouchers, charter schools, virtual schools and alternatively certified, non-unionized teachers. These strategies, overwhelmingly found in communities that are economically vulnerable and overwhelmingly of color, are rarely an educational feature in communities that are majority wealthy, or white, or both.
This event is co-sponsored by Teaching for Change. Books will be available for purchase before and after the event, as well as signing. Please contact books@busboysandpoets.com with questions.
