Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Disclaimer
Introduction
Chapter 1. Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology
Chapter 2. From Plessy to NCLB: The “Peculiar” Practice of Segregation in American Public Education
Chapter 3. Four Dimensionality and the Ironic
Chapter 4. The Bad School
Chapter 5. Androids and Infernal Feedback Loops
Chapter 6. The State ELA Examination
Chapter 7. Mr. Wheeler
Chapter 8. Being Toward Eradication: School Closing and Gentrification
Chapter 9. Recommendations: Revising Legal Discourses, Educational Policies and Systems of Accountability
Bibliography
About the Author

About the Author

Darian Parker is a psychological anthropologist and founder and CEO of Parker Academics.

Reviews

What choices are available for ethnic minority students in our inner city schools? What forms of being are possible for students subjected to harsh institutional structures, ideologies of deficit thinking, racist symbolic orders, and bureaucratic totalitarianism? These questions lie at the heart of Darian Parker's probing existential-psychoanalytic-anthropological critique of contemporary apartheid educational practices in the United States. In the spirit of Paulo Freire’s best work, Parker provides a deeply moving, politically sharp, and existentially detailed description of the phenomenology of educational dehumanization. A must read for social justice educators and researchers interested in the question of education, freedom, and the struggle for human dignity.
*Tyson E. Lewis, University of North Texas*