Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1.Introduction and Theoretical Overview2.Embracing “Choice” Policies, Embracing Segregation?
3. A Tale of Two Cities: Paradoxes and Promises of School Integration
4. Charter School Segregation in Detroit
5. Lessons and Questions on Diversity from Detroit: Detroit as Microcosm
6. Making Diversity a Source of Prosperity: Intentional Integration and the Reimagining of Fair Housing
7. Reporter's Notebook: Race Reporting in the Trump Era
8. On Integrating Public Schools Under Obama and Trump
9. The Constitution and Racial Integration in the Public Schools: A Retrospective
10. Back to the Future: Revising Old Critiques to Find a Culturally Sustaining Form of School Integration
