Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb Drake Sean J.
Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb Drake Sean J. In Academic Apartheid, sociologist Sean J. Drawing on more than two years of ethnographic observation…
Specifikacia Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb Drake Sean J.
Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb Drake Sean J.
In Academic Apartheid, sociologist Sean J. 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. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced perspective, looking at how race and class intersect to affect modern school segregation.
Academic Apartheid represents a new way forward for scholars whose work 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.