Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits - Paperback
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Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits - Paperback
$54.72
by Ansley T. Erickson (Author)
In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways that schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in fact--via land-use decisions, curricula, and other tools--helped sustain inequality.
Taking Nashville as her focus, Erickson uncovers the hidden policy choices that have until now been missing from popular and legal narratives of inequality. In her account, inequality emerges not only from individual racism and white communities' resistance to desegregation, but as the result of long-standing linkages between schooling, property markets, labor markets, and the pursuit of economic growth. By making visible the full scope of the forces invested in and reinforcing inequality, Erickson reveals the complex history of, and broad culpability for, ongoing struggles in our schools.Author Biography
Ansley T. Erickson is assistant professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She lives in New York.
Number of Pages: 416
Dimensions: 0.85 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 07, 2017
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