The Color of Reform: Race, Education Reform, and Charter Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 288-299

  Dixson, Adrienne D ^a   Buras, Kristen L ^b   Jeffers, Elizabeth K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American studies; Afrocentric feminist epistemologies; critical ethnography; critical race theory; ethnicity and race; ethnographies; feminist methodologies; methodologies; neoliberalism; politics and culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924869156     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800414557826     Document Type: Article

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