ERIC Number: EJ687731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Mar
Pages: 33
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Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston 50 Years After Brown
Fine, Michelle; Bloom, Janice; Burns, April; Chajet, Lori; Guishard, Monique; Payne, Yasser; Perkins-Munn, Tiffany; Torre, Maria Elena
Teachers College Record, v107 n3 p496-528 Mar 2005
This article reports on the extensive qualitative and quantitative findings of a multi-method participatory study designed to assess urban and suburban youths' experiences of racial class justice or injustice in their schools and throughout the nation. Constructed as a letter to Zora Neale Hurston, who was immediately critical of the Brown decision in 1955, the article lays out the victories of Brown and the ongoing struggles, what we call six degrees of segregation that identify systematic policies that ensure an opportunity gap. The article theorizes the academic, social and psychological consequences of persistent inequity on youth of color and White American youth all adversely affected by systematic educational inequities that persist 50 years after Brown.
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Discrimination, Social Bias, Public Education, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Minority Group Children, Social Influences, Psychological Patterns
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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