Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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In a radically unequal United States, schools are incessantly key sites during which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson’s Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument concerning the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. Even as many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the sufferers of forces beyond their regulate, Erickson shows the many ways that schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in reality—by way of land-use decisions, curricula, and other tools—helped sustain inequality.

Taking Nashville as her center of attention, 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 results 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.

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