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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Whip Them Back into Line -- Part I: Movement Foundations -- Chapter 1. Whose Schools, Whose City? -- Part II: The Movement from Above -- Chapter 2. Regime Change: Cory Booker, Philanthrocapitalism, and the New Civil Rights Movement of Our Day, 1996-2006 -- Chapter 3. Booker in Power: Reconstructing the State and the Limits of Neoliberal Antiracism, 2006-2012 -- Part III: The Movement from Below -- Chapter 4. Rebel City?: Newark's Education Movement from Below, 2010-2013 -- Chapter 5. The Clash of Disruptors: Who Would Prevail? 2013-2014 -- Part IV: Containing the Movement -- Chapter 6. Ras Baraka's Self-Determination Politics: The First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Farce, Summer-Fall 2014 -- Chapter 7. We All Become Mayor?: Movement Reinvention and the Ousting of Cami Anderson, Spring-Summer 2015 -- Chapter 8. Making Newark Governable Again: Merging Movements through Racial Democracy, 2015-2018 -- Conclusion: Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Research Methods -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

"Examining the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey-a conflict that is raging in cities across the country-Expelling Public Schools is a critique of Black urban regime politics and the way in which antiracist messaging obscures real class divisions, interests, and ideological diversity"--

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city's public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their community-an effort that would drastically reduce the number of affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena-a longtime community and labor activist in New Orleans-explores this drastic change in Driven from New Orleans , exposing the social disaster visited on the city's bla

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city's public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to privatize and downsize their community--an effort that would drastically reduce the number of affordable apartments. What happened? John Arena--a longtime community and labor activist in New Orleans--explores this drastic change in Driven from New Orleans, exposing the social disaster visited on the city's black urban poor long before the natural disaster of Katrina magnified their plight. Arena argues that the key to understanding New Orleans's public housing transformation from public to private is the co-optation of grassroots activists into a government and foundation-funded nonprofit complex. He shows how the nonprofit model created new political allegiances and financial benefits for activists, moving them into a strategy of insider negotiations that put the profit-making agenda of real estate interests above the material needs of black public housing residents. In their turn, white developers and the city's black political elite embraced this newfound political "realism" because it legitimized the regressive policies of removing poor people and massively downsizing public housing, all in the guise of creating a new racially integrated, "mixed-income" community. In tracing how this shift occurred, Driven from New Orleans reveals the true nature, and the true cost, of reforms promoted by an alliance of a neoliberal government, nonprofits, community activists, and powerful real estate interests.

The ruling class solution to the 2008 global capitalist crisis has been to restore profitability and power to capital through massive state bailouts of banks and industry combined with savage attacks on working class living standards, with Greece simply being the most advanced in the process. At the same time, a post‐2008 global mass strike emerged that provided an opportunity for a working class response to not only the latest round of attacks, but to those imposed over the three decades of the neoliberal era. In this article, I use a Luxemburgian theoretical lens to analyze the U.S.'s Occupy Wall Street component of the mass strike process. I highlight the intramovement ideological and political obstacles to advancing the mass strike process through establishing a broad set of radical, working‐class centered demands to address the crisis.