Oakland Teacher's Strike
Listen to Teachers on The Strike Line As You Read The Dialogue in The First Page of The Article
What's Race Got To Do With It?
Young, P. A. (2001). What's race got to do with it?: The dynamics of race relations in the Oakland teachers strike. Race, Ethnicity And Education, 4(2), 125-143.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the racial dynamics and relations evident in the 1996 Oakland, California teachers’ strike. Striking and non-striking teachers openly articulate their involvement in the strike and their relationships with colleagues. In this strike, the majority of African-American teachers crossed strike lines while the majority of European American teachers walked the strike line. The analysis of teacher speech revealed that the concept of race is multidimensional as it consists of identity, meaning, history and social complexities that become formed, transformed and mutated through race-speaking.