Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits

by Ansley T. Erickson

Book Overview

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022652891X
• ISBN13: 9780226528915
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"