What’s Race Got To Do With It? : How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality, Second Edition Paperback / softback

Edited by Edwin Mayorga, Ujju Aggarwal, Bree Picower

Part of the Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness series

Paperback / softback

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Description

The first edition of Whatâ€™s Race Got to Do With It (2015) addressed a moment when those working on the groundâ€”activists, educators, young people, and familiesâ€”were trying to understand and fight back against neoliberal education reforms (e.g., high stakes testing, school closings, and charter schools), while uncovering what race had to do with it all in the context of a supposedly post-racial United States.

In the years since, the steady and grounded work of social movements has increased the visibility and critique of privatization, market-based reforms, and segregation; demonstrating the interlocking connections between racism and capitalism.

In this period we have also seen an intensified attack on public education (alongside other public infrastructures) and a return to a more overt "racism as we knew it." This new edition of Whatâ€™s Race continues the examination of neoliberal education reforms as they are being rolled back (or reworked) to track the changes and continuities of recent yearsâ€”revealing the ways in which market-driven education reforms work with and through raceâ€”and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms.

It is hoped that this new edition will continue to sharpen readersâ€™ analyses concerning what we are working to defend and what we are working to transform, and provides a guide to action that emboldens the collective struggle for justice.