Main entry:

Wiley, Amber N., author.

Title & Author:

Model schools in the model city : race, planning, and education in the nation's capital / Amber N. Wiley.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2026]
©2026

Description:

xii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-414) and index.
Introduction. Finding my roots: digging up the history of DC's public schools -- 1. Free to learn: building the Black public school system -- 2. Hard lessons: the shackling of the Black educational landscape -- 3. Black secondary schools: Jim Crow monuments to racial uplift -- 4. To secure these rights: educational equalization in the postwar metropolis -- 5. With the people, by the people, for the people: Shaw School urban renewal -- 6. Black power and brutalism: activist architects and progressive school design -- 7. Lessons learned? The politics of preservation for Washington's Black schools -- Epilogue. Rites of passage: the death and life of Black public schools

ISBN:

9780822968320 (paperback)
0822968320 (paperback)

Subject:

African American children Education Washington (D.C.) History.
School buildings Washington (D.C.) History.
Educational planning Washington (D.C.) History.
African Americans Education Washington (D.C.)
Enfants noirs américains Éducation Washington (D.C.) Histoire.
Constructions scolaires Washington (D.C.) Histoire.
Noirs américains Éducation Washington (D.C.)

Added entries:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Race, planning, and education in the nation's capital

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325743
Call No.: 325743
Copy: 1
Status: Available