Academic Apartheid

Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

Sean J. Drake (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38137-7 (ISBN)

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In Academic Apartheid, sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced perspective, looking at how race and class intersect to affect modern school segregation. 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. 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. Academic Apartheid represents a new way forward for scholars whose work sits at the intersection of education, race and ethnicity, class, and immigration.

Sean J. Drake is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and Senior Research Associate at the Maxwell Center for Policy Research.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Segregated Schools and Disadvantaged
Students in an Affluent Neighborhood

1. “If You’re Not in AP Classes, Then Who Are You?”
2. The Symbolic Criminalization of Failure
3. The Segregation of Teaching and Learning
4. The Institutionalization of Ethnic Capital
5. “We’ve Failed These Kids”
Missed Opportunities and Signs of Hope

Conclusion

Methodological Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	14 b-w photos, 4 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38137-8 / 0520381378
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38137-7 / 9780520381377
Zustand	Neuware