What’s Race Got To Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality (Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness)

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Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are incessantly of two camps. Some focal point their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, whilst others center on racial inequality. These analyses incessantly happen in isolation, continuing to divide those concerned with educational justice into «It’s race!» vs. «It’s class!» camps. What’s Race Got To Do With It? brings together these frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation. The group of scholar activist authors on this volume were selected on account of their state of the art racial economic analysis, understanding of corporate reform, and involvement in grassroots social movements. Every writer applies a racial economic framework to inform and complicate our analysis of how market-based reforms collectively increase wealth inequality and care for White supremacy. In accessible language, contributors trace the historical context of a single reform, examine how that reform maintains and expands racial and economic inequality, and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms. By analyzing current reforms through this dual lens, those concerned with social justice are better equipped to struggle against this constellation of reforms in ways that unite moderately than divide.

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