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Author Drake, Sean J., author.

Title Academic apartheid : race and the criminalization of failure in an American suburb / Sean J. Drake
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Contents Introduction : segregated schools and disadvantaged students in an affluent neighborhood -- "If you're not in AP classes, then who are you?": how pinnacle's institutional culture stratified the student body -- The symbolic criminalization of failure -- the segregation of teaching and learning -- The institutionalization of ethnic capital -- "We've failed these kids" : missed opportunities and signs of hope -- Conclusion -- Methodological postscript
Summary "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 over 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, Latino, 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2022)
Subject Segregation in education -- California, Southern
Educational equalization -- California, Southern
Racism in schools -- California, Southern
Minorities -- Education -- California, Southern
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Educational equalization.
Minorities -- Education.
Racism in schools.
Segregation in education.
Southern California.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021046116
ISBN 0520381386
9780520381384