‘Up in the northwest corner of the city’: the city, race and locating the school
‘Up in the northwest corner of the city’: the city, race and locating the school
This chapter examines the event of finding a location for the school, and examine the connections between the ways in which the city was (and is) racialized and undergoing urban change around gentrification and the rebranding of neighbourhoods. The question about ‘where to put the Black school in the White city’ would produce strong feelings across Toronto given its long and troubled histories with placements of non-White populations (and in relation to each other). The argument within is based upon the idea that the question of location affected the entire process of the becoming of the school rather than just at the ‘end’ of a rational and sequential process. That is, the question ‘haunted’ Trustees and community members prior to any governance and policy-development activities designed to produce the school.
Keywords: cities, policy prolepsis, gentrification, space, geographies, Jane and Finch, Toronto, Sheppard Public School, policy affects
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