Academic Apartheid : Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drake, Sean J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--California, Southern.

Educational equalization.

Minorities--Education--California, Southern.

Minorities.

Racism in schools--California, Southern.

Racism in schools.

Segregation in education--California, Southern.

Segregation in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Academic Apartheid

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 more than two years of ethnographic observation and dozens of interviews at two distinct high schools in a racially diverse Southern California suburb, Drake unveils hidden institutional mechanisms that lead to the overt segregation and symbolic criminalization of Black, Latinx, and lower-income students who struggle academically. His work illuminates how institutional definitions of success contribute to school segregation, how institutional actors leverage those definitions to justify inequality, and the ways in which local immigrant groups use their ethnic resources to succeed. Academic Apartheid represents a new way forward for scholars whose work sits at the intersection of education, race and ethnicity, class, and immigration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “If You’re Not in AP Classes, Then Who Are You?”

2. The Symbolic Criminalization of Failure

3. The Segregation of Teaching and Learning

4. The Institutionalization of Ethnic Capital

5. “We’ve Failed These Kids”

Conclusion

Methodological Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520381384

0520381386

OCLC:

1280407216