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Continuing Social Constraints in Education Agency: The School Choices and Experiences of Middle- Class African American Families in Albany, NY

Qualitative sociology review : QSR, 2021, Vol.17 (1), p.150-175 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Continuing Social Constraints in Education Agency: The School Choices and Experiences of Middle- Class African American Families in Albany, NY
Author: Knudson, Paul
Subjects: African Americans ; Black students ; Charter schools ; Childhood experiences ; Childhood factors ; Choices ; Constraints ; Education ; Emotions ; Empowerment ; Enrollments ; Families & family life ; families and schools ; Human capital ; Low income groups ; Middle class ; Neighborhoods ; Parenthood education ; Parents & parenting ; Poverty ; Private schools ; Professional training ; Public schools ; Race ; Racial segregation ; Residential preferences ; school choice ; School districts ; School environment ; Segregation ; social class ; Social classes ; Social constraint ; Sociology ; urban education
Is Part Of: Qualitative sociology review : QSR, 2021, Vol.17 (1), p.150-175
Description: This paper explores the experiences of middle-class African American parents who have enrolled their children in a central-city public school district and the factors that inform and contribute to their school enrollment decisions. Data come from nineteen in-depth interviews with middle-class African American parents in Albany, New York. The paper uses the conceptual framework of empowerment and agency to explore and analyze the findings. Findings suggest that middle-class African American parents possess some measure of empowerment based on their human capital and positive childhood experiences in public schools. The latter denotes the salience of emotions in intergenerational education transmission. Parents’ empowerment, however, does not fully extend to agency. Most parents’ school choices have been structured and narrowed by racial segregation in residence and by the real and perceived racial exclusion in private school settings. Therefore, even for highly-educated, middle-income African Americans, anxieties over racial exclusion act as a strong social constraint on parents’ community and school choices.
Publisher: Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1733-8077
EISSN: 1733-8077
DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.17.1.10
Source: Open Access: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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Continuing Social Constraints in Education Agency: The School Choices and Experiences of Middle- Class African American Families in Albany, NY

2021. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms available at http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/copyrights_eng.php ;ISSN: 1733-8077 ;EISSN: 1733-8077 ;DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.17.1.10

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