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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Perlstein, Daniel. "The 1968 New York City School Crisis: Teacher Politics, Racial Politics, and the Decline of Liberalism," School of Education, Stanford University, May 1994.
In 1968, white New York teacher unionists and black community organizers engaged in a bitter struggle over efforts to create neighborhood school boards in Harlem and Ocean Hill-Brownsville. This dissertation examines how activists’ ideologies propelled the school conflict. Although conflicting interests and the evolving conditions of urban and national life influenced activism, the varying ways activists understood race and class played a central role in the evolution of political life. The interplay of white resistance to racial equality and black separatism, which characterized the New York crisis, epitomized the weakening hold of liberalism on American politics.
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