"Coming Home" to New Homes and New Schools: Critical Race Theory and the New Politics of Containment

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Janet L.; Stovall, David
Titel	"Coming Home" to New Homes and New Schools: Critical Race Theory and the New Politics of Containment
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 23 (2008) 2, S.135-152 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Middle Class; Economically Disadvantaged; Housing; Public Housing; Educational Opportunities; Racial Attitudes; Racial Composition; Public Policy; Social Class; Social Differences; Case Studies; Educational Policy; School Effectiveness; Educational Quality; Minority Groups; Community Change; Educational Change; Change Strategies; Critical Theory; Race; Illinois + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Mittelschicht; Unterkunft; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Rassenfrage; Öffentliche Ordnung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Unterschied; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schuleffizienz; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ethnische Minderheit; Bildungsreform; Lösungsstrategie; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung
Abstract	Older cities in the United States have long been trying to "bring back" the middle class in order to increase tax base. The poor quality of schools and the presence of public housing often were cited as deterrents for attracting higher income families. When the 2000 Census data revealed improvements in many cities, some elected officials and scholars attributed the turnaround to policies such as those aimed at transforming public housing and urban schools. In this article the authors examine these strategies as they have played out in a Chicago community to illustrate how these policies also facilitate the displacement and containment of poor people of color. Utilizing critical race theory, they argue that race continues to guide both education and public housing policy in historically segregated places like Chicago, and that racism is masked by class claims that allow the interests of middle class to trump educational opportunities for poor. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 7 notes.) (Author).
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