“Policing brown bodies and requiring young children to wear uniforms restricting their choices and imaginations mimics and prepares them for prison life.”
The current community preference system may have its flaws, the writer says, but simply calling for its elimination is irresponsible and callous after centuries of race-based zoning.
We must vehemently reject the basic assumptions of Redlining: that some are inherently more valuable and have more to offer society than others. It will require more than patches or…
School segregation is also blamed on residential patterns that are themselves seen as organic. In reality, the disparities of class and race profoundly and deliberately shape neighborhoods and schools.
Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.
In the debate over whether the city’s community preference exacerbates segregation, the author argues what’s really needed is a policy that can distinguish whether a neighborhood’s ethnic stamp is a…