What a School Means: A Conversation with Eve L. Ewing

Join Eve L. Ewing in radically reimagining the meaning of public schools with an antiracist, liberatory vision of what education could be. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are schools beyond the brick and mortar that compose them or the test scores and graduation rates that garner the most public attention? Join writer, scholar and cultural organizer Eve. L. Ewing in conversation with Jen Johnson from the Chicago Teachers Union as they discuss what schools really mean to Americans and to African-Americans in particular. Can schools be places for liberation or are they destined to remain institutions that reflect the oppressions and segregation of society? Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 1919 and the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side. Her first book, the poetry collection Electric Arches, received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. Jen Johnson is Chief of Staff for the Chicago Teachers Union. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can get a copy of 1919 and Electric Arches from Haymarket Books where we are having a site-wide 50% off sale through May 14th. 1919: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1295-1919 Electric Arches: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1374-electric-arches Check out Eve's latest book, Ghosts in School Yard: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780226526027 Haymarket's list of books for young readers: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/116-50-off-haymarket-books-for-young-readers Haymarket's education justice reading list: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/146-education-justice-reading-list --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. Every dollar we take in from book sales and donations goes directly to support our project of publishing books for changing the world—a project has never been more necessary or more urgent. We need your help to continue to do the work. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this important work.