Kristen L Buras
Biographic Data
| ID | 222055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen L Buras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Buras |
| SIGNATURE | BURAS K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Education research and critical race praxis
Urban South Grassroots Research Collective for Public Education (USGRC) is a New Orleans-based coalition melding research and grassroots organizing for racial-economic equity. Buras examines her involvement as a scholar activist working in solidarity with community groups to document the effects of the charter school takeover on black public schools and neighborhoods – and push back. Through narrative accounts, Buras illustrates and analyzes USGR…
Thank God for Mississippi!” How Disparagement of the South Has Destroyed Public Schooling in New Orleans—and Beyond
It is not uncommon to reference dire conditions in the South to make the nation appear more racially equitable and economically advanced by comparison. In this essay, I argue that the meanings and complexities surrounding commonplace disparagement of the South are not only troubling, but serve to advance the forms of race and class power ostensibly under critique. I do not contend that depictions of the South as racially oppressive are inaccurate…
Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans
In this article, Buras chronicles the struggle against closing Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans. Amid mass charter school development and the School Facilities Master Plan aimed at reconstructing the city’s education landscape, Douglass remained one of the only open access public high schools in the historic Upper 9th Ward. The community’s spirited effort to honor the school’s African American legacy and acquire greater resources fro…
The Color of Reform
This article will focus on both the racial implications of the charter school "movement" in New Orleans after Katrina and the resistance to it by local citizens. We argue that it is difficult to ignore the manner in which White supremacist ideology has been normalized in the reform as it has historically in U.S. public education. Drawing on separate but complementary research by the authors, this article will be multi-vocal and reflect our positi…
Grassroots educational organizing in an era of venture capital
Keywords: charter schoolscommunity organizingeducation entrepreneurseducational policygrassroots resistanceneoliberalismphilanthropypolicy networksventure capital
We're not going nowhere’
New Orleans has become the blueprint for urban education reform in the United States, with federal, state, and local policymakers advocating its development as the nation's first all-charter school district. The destruction of the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina provided education entrepreneurs and state allies with an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to rewrite the geography of New Orleans. Targeted state disinvestment in black communities…
Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism
In this article, Kristen L. Buras examines educational policy formation in New Orleans and the racial, economic, and spatial dynamics shaping the city's reconstruction since 2005. More specifically, Buras draws on the critical theories of whiteness as property, accumulation by dispossession, and urban space economy to describe the strategic assault on black communities by education entrepreneurs. Based on data collected from an array of stakehold…
We have to tell our story’
In cities across the United States, working–class communities of color find themselves struggling against inequities deepened by state disinvestment. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several public high schools in New Orleans over the last decade—has been a part of this struggle and embraces a pedagogy rooted in the voices, cultures, and histories of traditionally marginalized youth, their families, schools, and neighborhoods.…
Rightist Multiculturalism
Introduction: Rightist Multiculturalism as the New Hegemony 1. Historicizing Core Knowledge: Neoconservatism, Cultural Deficiency and the Civil Rights Frontier 2. Questioning Core Assumptions: A Critical Reading of E.D. Hirsch's Educational Vision 3. Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement 4. The Disuniting of America's History: Core Knowledge and the National Past 5. Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform. Appendix A: Methodologies: Getting t…
Radical disenchantments
This article traces part of the history of neoconservatism in the United States and analyses its impact on contemporary schooling. It examines the political evolution of a fraction of old leftists whose disenchantment with the possibilities of radical transformation led them to become new rightists. Whether attacking the countercultural left or the welfare state in the 1960s, or critical multiculturalism more recently, neoconservatives have embra…
Rightist Multiculturalism
The Color of Reform
This article will focus on both the racial implications of the charter school "movement" in New Orleans after Katrina and the resistance to it by local citizens. We argue that it is difficult to ignore the manner in which White supremacist ideology has been normalized in the reform as it has historically in U.S. public education. Drawing on separate but complementary research by the authors, this article will be multi-vocal and reflect our positi…
We're not going nowhere’
New Orleans has become the blueprint for urban education reform in the United States, with federal, state, and local policymakers advocating its development as the nation's first all-charter school district. The destruction of the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina provided education entrepreneurs and state allies with an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to rewrite the geography of New Orleans. Targeted state disinvestment in black communities…
We have to tell our story’
In cities across the United States, working–class communities of color find themselves struggling against inequities deepened by state disinvestment. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several public high schools in New Orleans over the last decade—has been a part of this struggle and embraces a pedagogy rooted in the voices, cultures, and histories of traditionally marginalized youth, their families, schools, and neighborhoods.…
Thank God for Mississippi!” How Disparagement of the South Has Destroyed Public Schooling in New Orleans—and Beyond
It is not uncommon to reference dire conditions in the South to make the nation appear more racially equitable and economically advanced by comparison. In this essay, I argue that the meanings and complexities surrounding commonplace disparagement of the South are not only troubling, but serve to advance the forms of race and class power ostensibly under critique. I do not contend that depictions of the South as racially oppressive are inaccurate…
Radical disenchantments
This article traces part of the history of neoconservatism in the United States and analyses its impact on contemporary schooling. It examines the political evolution of a fraction of old leftists whose disenchantment with the possibilities of radical transformation led them to become new rightists. Whether attacking the countercultural left or the welfare state in the 1960s, or critical multiculturalism more recently, neoconservatives have embra…
Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans
In this article, Buras chronicles the struggle against closing Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans. Amid mass charter school development and the School Facilities Master Plan aimed at reconstructing the city’s education landscape, Douglass remained one of the only open access public high schools in the historic Upper 9th Ward. The community’s spirited effort to honor the school’s African American legacy and acquire greater resources fro…
Grassroots educational organizing in an era of venture capital
Keywords: charter schoolscommunity organizingeducation entrepreneurseducational policygrassroots resistanceneoliberalismphilanthropypolicy networksventure capital
Rightist Multiculturalism
Introduction: Rightist Multiculturalism as the New Hegemony 1. Historicizing Core Knowledge: Neoconservatism, Cultural Deficiency and the Civil Rights Frontier 2. Questioning Core Assumptions: A Critical Reading of E.D. Hirsch's Educational Vision 3. Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement 4. The Disuniting of America's History: Core Knowledge and the National Past 5. Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform. Appendix A: Methodologies: Getting t…
Radical disenchantments
This article traces part of the history of neoconservatism in the United States and analyses its impact on contemporary schooling. It examines the political evolution of a fraction of old leftists whose disenchantment with the possibilities of radical transformation led them to become new rightists. Whether attacking the countercultural left or the welfare state in the 1960s, or critical multiculturalism more recently, neoconservatives have embra…
Rightist Multiculturalism
We have to tell our story’
In cities across the United States, working–class communities of color find themselves struggling against inequities deepened by state disinvestment. Students at the Center—a writing initiative based in several public high schools in New Orleans over the last decade—has been a part of this struggle and embraces a pedagogy rooted in the voices, cultures, and histories of traditionally marginalized youth, their families, schools, and neighborhoods.…
Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism
In this article, Kristen L. Buras examines educational policy formation in New Orleans and the racial, economic, and spatial dynamics shaping the city's reconstruction since 2005. More specifically, Buras draws on the critical theories of whiteness as property, accumulation by dispossession, and urban space economy to describe the strategic assault on black communities by education entrepreneurs. Based on data collected from an array of stakehold…
Grassroots educational organizing in an era of venture capital
Keywords: charter schoolscommunity organizingeducation entrepreneurseducational policygrassroots resistanceneoliberalismphilanthropypolicy networksventure capital
We're not going nowhere’
New Orleans has become the blueprint for urban education reform in the United States, with federal, state, and local policymakers advocating its development as the nation's first all-charter school district. The destruction of the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina provided education entrepreneurs and state allies with an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to rewrite the geography of New Orleans. Targeted state disinvestment in black communities…
Thank God for Mississippi!” How Disparagement of the South Has Destroyed Public Schooling in New Orleans—and Beyond
It is not uncommon to reference dire conditions in the South to make the nation appear more racially equitable and economically advanced by comparison. In this essay, I argue that the meanings and complexities surrounding commonplace disparagement of the South are not only troubling, but serve to advance the forms of race and class power ostensibly under critique. I do not contend that depictions of the South as racially oppressive are inaccurate…
Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans
In this article, Buras chronicles the struggle against closing Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans. Amid mass charter school development and the School Facilities Master Plan aimed at reconstructing the city’s education landscape, Douglass remained one of the only open access public high schools in the historic Upper 9th Ward. The community’s spirited effort to honor the school’s African American legacy and acquire greater resources fro…
The Color of Reform
This article will focus on both the racial implications of the charter school "movement" in New Orleans after Katrina and the resistance to it by local citizens. We argue that it is difficult to ignore the manner in which White supremacist ideology has been normalized in the reform as it has historically in U.S. public education. Drawing on separate but complementary research by the authors, this article will be multi-vocal and reflect our positi…
Education research and critical race praxis
Urban South Grassroots Research Collective for Public Education (USGRC) is a New Orleans-based coalition melding research and grassroots organizing for racial-economic equity. Buras examines her involvement as a scholar activist working in solidarity with community groups to document the effects of the charter school takeover on black public schools and neighborhoods – and push back. Through narrative accounts, Buras illustrates and analyzes USGR…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)