Article
Whose Compelling Interest? The Ending of Desegregation and the Affirming of Racial Inequality in Education.
Education and Urban Society
(2012)
Abstract
This article provides a critical race analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to declare voluntary public school integration unconstitutional in Parents v. Seattle School District No.1. The author contends that the high Court used a perpetrator perspective of racial discrimination to privilege the self-interests of white families over students of color opportunity to attend the Seattle metropolitan area’s top public high school. This paper not only explains how the decision locks-in racial inequity in education, but also, how education policies created to improve the learning opportunities for students of color are resisted, and ultimately thwarted by Whites. The article concludes with a discussion for the continuance of race as a proportional instrument to achieve equity in education.
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2012
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124511404888
Citation Information
Jamel K. Donnor. "Whose Compelling Interest? The Ending of Desegregation and the Affirming of Racial Inequality in Education." Education and Urban Society Vol. 44 Iss. 5 (2012) p. 535 - 552 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jamel-donnor/19/