The Institute on Race & Poverty with Peter
Lang Publishing Co. in New York have published a new book for
policymakers, advocates and academics titled In Pursuit
of a Dream Deferred: Linking Housing and Education Policy.
IRP researchers and Lang editors believe that this book brings
a fresh perspective to both education and housing debates. The
authors advocate policies that recognize the link between each
system and work to break down barriers to integration in both
arenas.
This analysis comes at an important juncture in American history,
when policymakers and school officials increasingly talk about
the value of colorblind policies, vouchers and neighborhood schools.
Although all of these approaches claim to improve school systems,
the authors suggest that they can have little positive impact
if integration is not a fundamental component of education. The
book argues that the reality of our democratic ideal of equality
of opportunity inevitably turns on our recognition of the central
role that segregation plays in maintaining inequality and denying
communities of color key resources and opportunities.
In Pursuit of A Dream Deferred features articles
by Meredith Lee Bryant of Morgan, Lewis and Bockus in Princeton,
N.J.; Kenneth B. Clark, distinguished professor of psychology
emeritus of City University in New York; Drew Days III, professor
of law at Yale Law School; Nancy Denton, professor of sociology
at State University of New York at Albany; Richard Thompson Ford,
professor of law at Stanford Law School; Vina Kay, senior researcher
at the Institute on Race & Poverty; Gavin Kearney, director
of research and programs at the Institute on Race & Poverty;
Charles R. Lawrence III, professor of law at Georgetown University
Law Center; Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy
at Harvard University; john a. powell, executive director at
the Institute on Race & Poverty and professor of law at the
University of Minnesota Law School; Theodore M. Shaw, deputy
director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; and Michael H. Sussman,
attorney for Yonkers and Orange County in New York.
The book will be available in September from Amazon.com for $32.95. |
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More than forty years after the
Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education,
segregation persists in our schools. In Pursuit of a Dream
Deferred turns a critical eye toward this continuing
problem and its relationship to housing segregation in the United
States. This analysis comes at an important juncture in American
history, as policymakers and school officials increasingly talk
about the value of colorblind policies, vouchers, and neighborhood
schools. The scholarship that currently addresses issues of segregation
has focused on either housing or education, but not their interrelationship.
john a. powell is Executive Director of the Institute
on Race & Poverty and the Marvin J. Sonofsky Professor of
Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Gavin Kearney is the Director of Research and Programs
at the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota
Law School.
Vina Kay
is Senior Researcher at the Institute on Race & Poverty at
the University of Minnesota Law School.
Paperback - $32.95 (US)
- ISBN 0-8204-3943-6 - Coming JULY 2001
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