Rachel D. Godsil, Linda R. Tropp, and Kim Forde-Mazrui We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. –Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting, Milliken v. Bradley (1974), p.783. Introduction Justice Thurgood Marshall was convinced that, for all … [Read more...] about For All of Our Children: Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Faith in Integration Is Still Right (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Civil Rights History
Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
A review of The Sociology of Housing, edited by Brian McCabe and Eva Rosen — Gregory Preston Housing is often only in the public consciousness or policymaker agenda during cyclical busts, as in the foreclosures of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis or the eviction moratoria of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for many low-income homeowners and renters, housing is in a state of … [Read more...] about Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing (August-December 2023 P&R Journal)
Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Matthew B. Kautz When I began my teaching career in Detroit, I entered my co-located high school with excitement about all the curricular possibilities. However, within days, it became painfully clear the school’s approach to discipline dominated the … [Read more...] about Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Saba Bireda and Ary Amerikaner Policies that allocate resources to schools and policies that assign children to schools are clearly and deeply interconnected. Brown v. Board of Education’s decree that separate is inherently unequal was premised on the … [Read more...] about Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Derek Black Racial segregation and unequal school funding persist at alarming levels. The percentage of intensely segregated schools serving students of color has increased in recent decades, more than tripling since the late 1980s. The gap between … [Read more...] about The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality— And the Myth Behind It (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)