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Wheeler-Bell, Quentin – Educational Policy, 2019
Ghettos are a social evil. They are social atrocities maintained by inexcusable racist laws and practices, structures of class domination, and institutionalized political marginalization. After "Brown v. The Board of Education," educational reformers have increasingly (mis)framed the problem of "ghetto schools" as a failure to…
Descriptors: Ghettos, Social Problems, Critical Theory, Disadvantaged Schools
Ivery, Curtis, Ed.; Bassett, Joshua, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
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…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Civil Rights, Democracy, Correctional Institutions