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Poverty & Race Journal

Complete P&R Issues Archives

Latest P&R Issue and Article Links

Link to the full January-April 2025 issue.

Introduction – Transportation Equity
– Ariel Bierbaum, guest editor

Dividing Lines and the Infrastructure of Racial Inequality
Deborah N. Archer

The Freeway Revolts – then and now
Karilyn Crockett

Welcome to PRRAC’s new Executive Director!

Using Title VI to challenge discriminatory transportation investments: Looking back and looking forward
Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, Gabriel Quiñones-Zambrana

Transportation Equity: A Serious Turn in the Federal Road as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Reversing Years of Progress
Mariia V. Zimmerman

Making Transit Investment Work for Communities in Maryland
Sheila Somashekhar, Kathryn Howell, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap

The Remnant
Kwame Dawes


Link to the full September-December 2024 issue.

The Upcoming legal resistance to Project 2025 and the second Trump Administration
Jon Greenbaum

A battle for the soul of Title VI in Cancer Alley
Amy Laura Cahn

Voices of Resistance: Miguel Acosta
Amy Laura Cahn

 


Link to the full May-August 2024 issue.

Title VI Turns 60: Is it Too Late to Awaken the Sleeping Giant?
Johnathan Smith

Negating Objections to Housing Decommodification through Strategic Tenant Movement Support for  Comprehensive Economic and Social Rights
Thomas Silverstein

Rosenwald Fellows and the Journey to Brown v. Board of Education
Stephanie Deutsch

Life in Grants Pass
John Square III and Helen Cruz

Resources


Link to full January-April 2024 issue

Brown at 70 and Milliken at 50

Introduction

As we approach the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and 50th anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley, what progress has been made, where have we fallen short or gotten stuck, and what is required to truly fulfill the promise of integration and educational equity? This P&R special issue brings together a variety of perspectives—lawyers, researchers, advocates, educators, parents, and students—to reflect on both the fulfilled and unfulfilled promise of Brown and offer ideas to help chart a path forward for making truly equitable and integrated schools a reality. Each piece explores a little-known or underemphasized aspect of Brown or Milliken, ultimately providing insights and guidance about how to strengthen the modern movement for school integration.

For All of Our Children: Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Faith in Integration Is Still Right
Rachel D. Godsil, Linda R. Tropp, and Kim Forde-Mazrui

Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy
Jin Hee Lee, Sarah Seo, and Hamida Labi

Reclaiming Brown’s Remedial Principle
Olatunde Johnson

How Brown v. Board of Education Affected Black Teachers: A New Perspective
Zoë Burkholder

Censored, Erased, and Whitewashed: Jim Crow Education in the Twenty-First Century
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

The Southern Education Foundation’s Legacy with Brown v. Board of Education
Raymond C. Pierce

The Future of Brown is Multiracial
Alejandra T. Vázquez Baur

Bridging Generations: Reflections on Intergenerational Movement-Building and Youth Organizing in New York City
Matt Gonzales and Aneth Naranjo

The Problem We All Still Live With
Andrew Lefkowits and Val Brown

The Power of Three-Dimensional Synergy: School Finance Reform, Quality Pre-K, and School Integration
Rucker Johnson

NCSD Turns 15


Poverty & Race Journal image of August-December 2023 issue front cover

Link to full August-December 2023 issue

August-December 2023 Issue Articles

The arc of opportunity: a decade of research on housing, neighborhoods, and social mobility

— Raj Chetty (Keynote address at the 9th National Housing Mobility Conference. September 20, 2023)

The Role of the Federal Government in Promoting Cross-Sector Regional Collaboration

—Elizabeth H. DeBray, Philip Tegeler, Ariel H. Bierbaum, & Andrew J. Greenlee

Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing

—Gregory Preston

What is Social Housing?

—Alliance for Housing Justice


Link to full April-July 2023 issue

The Interconnection Between School Finance and Segregation

Introduction

Nearly 70 years ago, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. But Brown and its progeny never seriously examined the ways in which inadequate school funding is intertwined with race and segregation—and places students of color in a double bind. The country has consistently slipped backward on school segregation for the last several decades and never really got started on related problems of how we fund schools. The authors in this issue highlight these interconnections, examine their effects on equal educational opportunities, and chart a path for addressing segregation and school funding in tandem.
—Derek Black, Guest Editor

April-July 2023 Issue Articles

School Finance as Racial Subordination

The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality—And the Myth Behind It

K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs

Understanding the First, Second, and Third Order Effects on Disparities in K-12 Funding and Outcomes

Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation

Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown

Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century

Unintended Consequences of School Finance Reform? An Initial Exploration.

Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus

Chester Hartman – In Memoriam (1936-2023) Tribute


Link to full Jan-March 2023 issue

Racial capitalism, tenant power, and social housing

Racial capitalism. Social housing. These terms are widely used, but thinly understood. They are easily abstracted and readily made fodder for theoretical discussion detached from lived realities. This issue brings together organizers and academics to consider the relevance and meaning of racial capitalism and social housing from a perspective grounded in struggle, experience, and attentiveness to the dynamics of the U.S. political economy. The authors offer insights on the material stakes of racial capitalism, the reasons it necessitates building movements for tenant power, and the policy pathways that impede or facilitate efforts to treat housing as a social good rather than a profit generating commodity. — Jamila Michener, guest editor

January-March 2023 Issue Articles

Racial Capitalism in the City of Brotherly Love 

The Case for the Tenant Union

Law, Political Economy, and Racialized Rent Gaps 

The Right to a Tenant Union and the Fight for Rent Control in New York State

Los Angeles’ Housing Revolution

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Recent P&R Issues and Article Links

Link to full October-December 2022 issue

Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility

Introduction

This past August, economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published two new papers in Nature, based on a massive dataset and accompanied by detailed maps on Opportunity Insights’ new Social Capital Atlas, that continue to build the economic case for integration – bringing children together within communities, schools, and institutions, and across class differences. Using Facebook data linked to IRS and other datasets, the study made an empirical comparison of three classic forms of social capital and found that “connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low vs. high socioeconomic status” was the strongest predictor of upward economic mobility for low income children – and that these positive impacts were further enhanced by the degree to which children were living and going to school in places where “friending bias” (the tendency to be connected to people in your own SES group) was lowest. Policymakers and advocates were already indebted to Professor Chetty and his co-authors for their 2015 finding that children who move from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods when they are young have dramatically improved outcomes as adults, and this new research has brought us closer to understanding the mechanisms that drive these outcomes. As the following essays illustrate, Chetty’s findings have crucial lessons for federal housing programs, land use, housing mobility, and school integration.

October-December 2022 Issue Articles

Social Capital and Economic Connectedness

The Chetty Team’s Social Capital Findings: A Timely Boost for Mixed-Income Development

Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research

How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation

Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs

Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation


 Link to full January-September 2022 issue

January-September 2022 Issue Articles

Colonized Time, Racial Time, and the Legal Time of Progress

Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain Areas

School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report

Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property

Resources


Link to full October-December 2021 issue

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: I. Policy Windows and Policy Strategies

Connecting Housing and School Integration Research, Practice, and Policy

The Bridges Collaborative: Centering Practitioners in the Fight for Integration

School Desegregation, School Rezoning, and Growth Management in Two Maryland Counties

Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance School Desegregation and Promote Educational Equity

Defining Segregation

Tackling School and Housing Segregation Through Revisions to AFFH

Prioritizing Educational Equity and School Integration in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Strategies

New Urban Institute Report and Data Tool Highlight Racially Unequal School Boundaries Across the US

Connecting Housing and School Integration – Federal and State Policy Levers

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: II. Evaluating the Past and Moving Forward with a Focus on Equity and Racial Justice

Using Research Evidence to Address Segregation: A Racial Equity Perspective

Policy Change Using a Regional Equity Framework

Ratings, Rankings, and Segregation: The Failure of Measurement and Accountability in Education

Confronting “White Island” School Districts

An Alternative Measure of Student Performance to Help Parents Evaluate Schools

The Policy Possibilities to Confront the Racial Impacts of Gentrification

October-December 2021 Issue Articles: III. How the Next Generation is Tackling the Impact of Segregation in their Community

Q&A: Epic Theatre Ensemble’s Between the Lines Explores Housing and Schools Segregation

Excerpt: Between the Lines

Long Island High School Students Advocate for Housing and School Integration


 Link to full May-September 2021 issue

May-September 2021 Issue Articles

A New Vision for Fair Housing in the Real Estate Industry – Part 1: How the Housing Search Process Perpetuates Segregation

Opportunity Hoarding, Schools, and Racial Reckoning

Integration Through Immersion: The Possibilities of TwoWay Dual Language Programs 

A New Vision for Fair Housing in the Real Estate Industry – Part 2: An Actionable Fair Housing Strategy for Real Estate Agents and Agencies


 Link to full January-April 2021 issu e

January-April 2021 Issue Articles

Land Values and the Enduring Significance of Racial Residential Segregation

The Making of Boston’s AFFH Ordinance – A Brief Oral History

The American Right to Education: The Northwest Ordinance, Reconstruction, and the Current Challenge

Gentrification, Demographic Change, and the Challenges of Integration

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