Racism, Public Schooling, And The Entrenchment Of White Supremacy: A Critical Race Ethnography Project Muse Upcc Books

The racial achievement gap in U.S. education is a pervasive and consistent problem, an unavoidable fact of public schooling in this country. Because This Is Not for Us is a multi-site critical race ethnography of policy and institutional relationships in an large urban West Coast school district, focused on the practices that created and sustain the achievement gap in that district's schools. In this daring and provocative work, author Sabina Elena Vaught examines how this gap, and the policies and practices that sustain it, is produced and reproduced by structures of racism and race attitudes operative in education. She interweaves numerous interviews with and observations of teachers, principals, students, school board members, community leaders, and others to describe the complex arrangement of racial power in schooling, and concludes that the institutional relationships that create and support policy practices ensure the continued undereducation of Black and Brown youth. Racism and inequity in U.S. education are pervasive and consistent problems, unavoidable facts of public schooling in this country. This book is a multisite critical race ethnography of institutional relationships and organization in a large, urban, West Coast school district. In this daring and provocative work, Sabina E. Vaught examines the policies and practices that created and sustain racialized inequity and White supremacy in that district's schools. She interweaves numerous interviews with and observations of teachers, principals, students, school board members, community leaders, and others to describe the complex arrangement of racial power in schooling. Ultimately, Vaught's analyses map the ways in which institutional relationships around schooling ensure the continued undereducation of Black and Brown youth Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy 5 Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction: Jericho 13 Chapter 1. The Color of Money: Student Funding and the Commodification of Black Children 47 Chapter 2. The Jeremiad: Decentralization and the Deregulation of Democracy 105 Chapter 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School: Hate Speech and the Grammar of White Supremacy 159 Conclusion: Speaking Truth to Power, Acting Truth to Power 211 Epilogue 229 Notes 233 Bibliography 237 Index 251 A 251 B 251 C 251 D 251 E 251 F 251 G 251 H 251 I 251 J 251 K 251 L 251 M 251 P 252 R 252 S 252 T 252 U 252 V 252 W 252 Sabina E. Vaught. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.