Ten NEGOTIATING THE BORDERLAND

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. MAPS x
4. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
5. PROLOGUE 1
6. Part one CREATION Writing Urban Memory
7. One LITERACY, SCHOOL, AND IDENTITY IN AN URBAN, WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITY 17
8. Two FOUNDING MOTHERS AND THE CREATION OF THE CHARTER 25
9. Three THE POLITICS OF THE CHARTER AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE 47
10. Four HIRING STAFF Teachers, Kin, and an Instructional Leader 56
11. Part two DETERRITORIALIZATION
12. Five OPENING THE SCHOOL Whose School Is It? 69
13. Six KIDS IN THE URBAN BORDERLAND A Collage 74
14. Seven CLASHING PHILOSOPHIES, CLASHING PRACTICES Follow the Leader versus Ring around the Rosie 97
15. Eight ACADEMIC BORDERLANDS MICROgirls, a Math Club for Girls with Stephanie Jones 109
16. Nine MOMENTS Collaboration and Consensus in the Borderland 120
17. Part three RETERRITORIALIZATION
18. Ten NEGOTIATING THE BORDERLAND 129
19. Eleven DETERRITORIALIZATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF RETERRITORIALIZATION with Lionel Brown and Roberta Lee 146
20. Twelve BORDERLANDS, FACTIONS, AND INVERTED IMAGINED COMMUNITIES 164
21. Thirteen TAKING BACK THE SCHOOL 170
22. Fourteen TRANSFORMING AND CYCLING BORDERLANDS OF COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND CLASS with Holly Winwood, Janice Glaspie, and Lionel Brown 175
23. EPILOGUE Reinventing Urban Memory 191
24. NOTES 203
25. BIBLIOGRAPHY 209
26. INDEX 213