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The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles
over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era,
when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious
barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second
large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very
different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement
of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that
earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again
presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings
civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move
from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of
choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S.
schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping
minority children remains a central justification for choice
proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of
choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial
inequality.
"The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race
as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely
solved," write the editors of this groundbreaking and passionately
argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic
transformation is now clearly suburban and illustrate patterns of
demographic change in the suburbs with a series of rich case
studies. The book concludes by considering what kinds of strategies
school officials and community leaders can pursue at all levels to
improve opportunities for suburban low-income students and students
of colour, and what ways address the challenges associated with
demographic change.
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles
over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era,
when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious
barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second
large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very
different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement
of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that
earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again
presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings
civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move
from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of
choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S.
schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping
minority children remains a central justification for choice
proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of
choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial
inequality.
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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