After reading Kahlenberg and Orfield., my reaction is: you are both right! 1-Clearly, school racial integration is being undercut by judicial decisions. The likelihood seems to be that it will largely disappear. It hasn’t worked very effectively, as shown in Gary Orfield’s data on segregation increasing in recent years. We can’t go on as before. 2-Class integration has a … [Read more...] about A Response
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There has been a long and largely unproductive debate in this country about the primacy of racial subordination or class to address our society’s growing inequality. Over the last several years, a growing number of scholars have persuasively demonstrated that these two hierarchical structures in our society are powerfully related, but nonetheless differ. Addressing the problem … [Read more...] about A Response
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I join Gary Orfield’s observations in response to Richard D. Kahlenburg’s article on socioeconomic school integration. I write to articulate an analysis that may be implicit in Orfield’s observations and that is absent or ignored in Kahlenburg’s. Both articles failed to confront the core of the school integration issue, whether it is defined by race or by class: white racism … [Read more...] about A Response
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Richard Kahlenberg suggests that the economic integration of our public schools – or, more specifically, their transformation into “majority middle-class” schools – is both the necessary and achievable response to our society’s inability, and unwillingness, to achieve racial the desegregation of its schools and its housing patterns. Social science research demonstrates that … [Read more...] about A Response
