{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Expelling public schools: Antiracist politics and school privatization.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/f16093f2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4432,"description":"John Arena examines the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the country. Arena’s book Expelling Public Schools reveals the political rise of Cory Booker and Ras Baraka and what this particular case study illuminates about contemporary post-civil rights Black politics. Here, Arena is joined in conversation with David Forrest. Access the transcript: https://share.transistor.fm/s/19c275c6\nJohn (Jay) Arena is associate professor of sociology at CUNY’s College of Staten Island. Arena is author of Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark and Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization.\n\nDavid Forrest is associate professor of politics at Oberlin College. He is author of A Voice but No Power: Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis.\nWorks and scholars referenced:\nAdolph Reed Jr. (Stirrings in the Jug)\nDavid M. Kotz (The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism)\nCedric Johnson\nFrances Fox Piven (Challenging Authority)\nJane McAlevey (No Shortcuts)\nPreston H. Smith II (Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis)\nSharon Kurtz (Workplace Justice)\nMarc Doussard and Greg Schrock (Justice at Work)\nKristen Buras (Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space)\nTouré Reed (Toward Freedom)\nAlf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox (We Make Our Own History)\nColin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, editors (Marxism and Social Movements)\nRosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg Speaks)\nChris Maisano (“What Does Revolution Mean in the 21st Century?”, Jacobin)\nMark R. Beissinger (The Revolutionary City)\n\nPeople and organizations referenced:\nCory Booker\nChris Christie\nRas Baraka\nNewark’s downtown Teachers Village complex\nSharpe James\nCami Anderson\nChristopher Cerf\nRandi Weingarten\nAlbert Shanker\nKaren Lewis\nAl Moussab\nNewark Education Workers\nThis episode was recorded in September 2023.\n\nExpelling Public...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}