Inspired by her own experience with the education system, a professor of sociology explores how race and racism influence school choice and education.
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The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Though the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling required the integration of public education, US schools remain separated by race.
Solitary confinement is still a common feature of prisons across Canada and in its most populous province, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a practice that amounts to torture.
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts, two legal scholars maintain.
College presidents worked both at the forefront and behind the scenes in fighting for African Americans’ civil rights in the 1960s.
The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters than Asian ones.
Brown v. Board didn’t overrule ‘separate-but-equal’ but it had that end. A law scholar explains how there is a lesson there for conservatives on today’s Court looking to end abortion in the US.
Alton Levy may not be a household name today, but his court-martial put a spotlight on unequal treatment in the military.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
Americans tend to think of diversity in demographic terms, but it has a qualitative element to it that reflects a fundamental battle between segregation and integration.
Comments like Frost’s demonstrate ignorance towards the many structural inequities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and other marginalised peoples, in Australia.
Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.
A scholar of race and racism explains what critical race theory is – and how many people get it wrong.
Government investment in roads, railroads and other public services has always involved social programming, both for good and for ill.
A long-lost letter from prison by a civil rights activist provides a window on the pivotal role protesters in South Carolina played in fighting segregation.
Despite millions of free homes built since 1994, spatial inequality in South Africa remains high. A study evaluating a programme to boost rentals in well-located areas found mixed results, however.
Former enslaved persons never got ‘forty acres and a mule,’ and their descendants have been denied reparations for the legacy of slavery. Will Joe Biden be the president to change that?
An 1850 act permitted the creation of separate schools for Protestants, Catholics and for any five Black families. Some white people used the act to force Black students into separate institutions.
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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Professor of Education and Demography, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, New York University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
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Adjunct Lecturer of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College
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Professor, African American and African Studies, University of Virginia
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Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University