Racial Segregation: Jim Crow to School Choice

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Agenda

1. Introduction to Racism and White Privilege Course and Setting Context
2. Introduction to Racial Segregation
3. What is Segregation
4. History of Segregation
5. History of Desegregation
6. Southern Resistance
7. Segregation Through School Choice
8. Non Southern Resistance
9. Re-segregation and White Parents
10. Possible Integration Solutions
11. Further Education

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Presentation Slides

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1. Introduction to Racism and White Privilege Course and Setting Context

(Same Introduction every week)

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Videos in Section

• U.S. Department of Arts and Culture: #HonorNativeLand
• The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper | The Daily Social Distancing Show
• Guardian: James Baldwin at Cambridge University – 1965

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2. Introduction to Racial Segregation

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Videos in Section

• I Am Not Your Negro clip – Baldwin on Segregation
• john a. powell 2019 Anti-Black State Violence Symposium
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): School Segregation
• The Atlantic: Can School Integration Make a Comeback?
• Democracy Now: Nikole Hannah-Jones on Racism Beyond Explicit and Modern School Segregation

 

 

 

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3. What is Segregation

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Videos in Section

• Bernie Sanders: Its Expensive to be Poor
• Nikole Hannah-Jones: Cost of Segregation From 2019 MLK Humanities Forum

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4. History of Segregation

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Videos in Section

• Vox: The guide book that helped Black Americans travel during segregation
• MLK Jr “My dream has turned into a nightmare”

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5. History of Desegregation

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Videos in Section

• Nikole Hannah-Jones: History of School Desegregation From 2019 MLK Humanities Forum

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6. Southern Resistance

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Videos in Section

• Angela Davis: on Violence During her Prison Interview (1972)
• 13th: Attack on Civil Rights Leaders
• Vice: Swimming Segregation

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7. Segregation Through School Choice

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Videos in Section

• MIC: The Racist Origins of the SAT

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8. Non Southern Resistance

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Videos in Section

• Vox: Why African-Americans Left the South
• Bryan Stevenson: Lynching in America: How Is The Great Migration Related To Lynching?
• AJ+: Part 1: How the U.S. Government Segregated Chicago/ Part 2: Why Chicago’s Public Schools Are Broken
• RNC 2020: The McCloskeys speak at 2020 RNC
• MLK Jr. Talks About Segregation in North
• Michael Hobbes: How White Parents Stopped School Integration

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9. Re-segregation and White Parents

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Videos in Section

• Fusion: School Segregation is Still Pretty Bad Today
• Democracy Now: Nikole Hannah-Jones on Reagan’s Judicial Decline
• Nikole Hannah-Jones: Choosing a School When Race Matters From The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR
• Nikole Hannah-Jones Holds a Mirror to the Audience on School Segregation | Pod Save America
• Nikole Hannah-Jones: Poor White Schools vs Poor Black Schools From 2019 MLK Humanities Forum

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10. Possible Integration Solutions

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Videos in Section

• Nikole Hannah-Jones: Why we Need to Tie our Fates Together Pod Save America
• Nikole Hannah-Jones: Consolidating School Districts and on Being the Change From 2019 MLK Humanities Forum

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11. Further Education

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• Readings
  • Equal Justice Initiative
    • Segregation in America
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
    • It Was Never About Busing
    • How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’
    • The Re-segregation of Jefferson County
    • School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson
    • Segregation Now
  • Christopher Bonastia
    • Why the racist history of the charter school movement is never discussed
  • UCOMM Blog
    • The Racist Origins of Charter Schools
  • Aria Bendix
    • Do Private-School Vouchers Promote Segregation?
  • Chris Ford
    • The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers
  • Brookings
    • How charter schools are prolonging segregation
    • New evidence on school choice and racially segregated schools
  • People’s School of DC: Anti-Racism Reading Recommendations
    • wordpress.com/anti-racism-book-recommendations/
• Podcasts
  • Nice White Parents
  • The Problem We All Live With

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Additional Course Resources

(Same every week)

 

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Get involved Locally

• Peoples School of DC: Local Trainings, Lectures, Activism
• Peoples School of DC: Local Social Justice Resources and Organizations

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