Academic apartheid : race and the criminalization of failure in an American suburb /

"In Academic Apartheid, sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced perspective, looking at how race and class intersect to affect modern school segregation. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic observation and dozens of interviews at...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Drake, Sean J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Segregation in education > California, Southern.
Educational equalization > California, Southern.
Racism in schools > California, Southern.
Minorities > Education > California, Southern.
Ségrégation en éducation > Californie (Sud)
Démocratisation de l'enseignement > Californie (Sud)
Minorités > Éducation > Californie (Sud)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Educational equalization.
Minorities > Education.
Racism in schools.
Segregation in education.
Southern California.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : segregated schools and disadvantaged students in an affluent neighborhood
  • "If you're not in AP classes, then who are you?": how pinnacle's institutional culture stratified the student body
  • The symbolic criminalization of failure
  • the segregation of teaching and learning
  • The institutionalization of ethnic capital
  • "We've failed these kids" : missed opportunities and signs of hope
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological postscript.

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