Racial Residential Segregation and School Choice — Angela M. Simms
“I will assign this text in my Critical Pedagogies course as a case study for demonstrating how systems of oppression are experienced by individual Black parents. Angela Simms and Elizabeth Talbert showcase how socio-historical racism affects black and white parents’ efforts to procure a quality education for their children in an Ohio suburb. They connect major structural systems of inequity--residential segregation, residential mobility and school segregation—to individual choices to demonstrate that the freedom to choose schools is not freedom from systems of oppression but instead produces a highly racialized ‘parenting tax.’ This case study provides a tangible example of how one education policy is experienced so inequitably by white and Black parents because it situates individual struggle within socio-historical racist systems.” - Jennifer Rosales, Vice President for Inclusion and Engaged Learning & Chief Diversity Officer
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