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This edited volume analyzes a little-known but important juncture
in the history of racial integration and public education during
the Obama administration through the advent of the Trump
administration, which also marks a significant transition of US
racial politics and race relations from its foundations in civil
rights movements of the 1950s/60s. Focusing on the City of Detroit,
which via the historic Supreme Court case, Milliken v. Bradley,
stands as the central site of analysis for these broader national
dynamics of race, education, and integration-what we term as a "new
political economy of integration"-this volume offers a
multidisciplinary perspective on the critical role integration must
play in the project of America becoming a multiracial democracy as
US populations continue to grow more diverse and will soon
transform the nation into a multiracial majority for the first time
in its history.
This book is a collection of essays about urban community college
leaders' experiences during the COVID-19 era and racial injustice
protests of 2020. The result is a wide range of content from
political commentary to leadership advice-all through the unique
perspectives of African Americans leading some of the country's
biggest educational institutions with the greatest potential for
redressing a system of "interlocking injustices" that has evolved
and persisted for more than 400 years. While our institutions and
constituencies were disproportionately impacted by these events, we
believe that urban community colleges are also at the forefront of
transformative solutions for the underlying social-equity issues
that are most pronounced in the nation's biggest cities.
This book is a collection of essays about urban community college
leaders' experiences during the COVID-19 era and racial injustice
protests of 2020. The result is a wide range of content from
political commentary to leadership advice-all through the unique
perspectives of African Americans leading some of the country's
biggest educational institutions with the greatest potential for
redressing a system of "interlocking injustices" that has evolved
and persisted for more than 400 years. While our institutions and
constituencies were disproportionately impacted by these events, we
believe that urban community colleges are also at the forefront of
transformative solutions for the underlying social-equity issues
that are most pronounced in the nation's biggest cities.
Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared
that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were
disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's
Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery
and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today,
despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial"
nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Ivery
and Bassett combine their own experience in the fields of civil
rights and education with the knowledge of more than 20 experts in
the field of urban studies to provide an accessible overview of the
theories of the urban underclass and how they affect America's
urban crisis. This engaging look into the still-present racial
politics in America's cities adds significantly to the existing
scholarship on the urban underclass by discussing the role of the
prison-industrial complex in sustaining the urban crisis as well as
the importance of the concept of multiracial democracy to the
future of American politics and society. America's Urban Crisis and
the Advent of Color-blind Politics encourages the reader not only
to be aware of persisting racial inequalities, but to actively
engage in efforts to respond to them.
The book is divided into two major sections: (1) "Reclaiming
Integration"; (2) "Reclaiming the Language of Race." Both sections
are located in the context of the "post-racial" era and analyzed by
nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions. The purpose of
this organization is to link structural efforts to encourage
voluntary integration with discursive efforts to broaden our social
understanding of race in ways that advance the project of American
democracy. It is our firm belief that we cannot achieve meaningful
advances against enduring racial inequalities without linking
structural impacts of racialization (e.g., racial inequalities in
economics, education, healthcare, etc.) to the social discourse of
race, specifically in terms of the rejection of post-racial
politics that are based on the false idea that racism and
discrimination are no longer obstacles to opportunity in the United
States.
The book is divided into two major sections: (1) "Reclaiming
Integration"; (2) "Reclaiming the Language of Race." Both sections
are located in the context of the "post-racial" era and analyzed by
nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions. The purpose of
this organization is to link structural efforts to encourage
voluntary integration with discursive efforts to broaden our social
understanding of race in ways that advance the project of American
democracy. It is our firm belief that we cannot achieve meaningful
advances against enduring racial inequalities without linking
structural impacts of racialization (e.g., racial inequalities in
economics, education, healthcare, etc.) to the social discourse of
race, specifically in terms of the rejection of post-racial
politics that are based on the false idea that racism and
discrimination are no longer obstacles to opportunity in the United
States.
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