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Nominated for the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization—and profitability—of separate and unequal schools, published at a critical time in the dismantling of public education in America Public schools are among America’s greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education—today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars—there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides a trenchant analysis of our separate and unequal schools and argues that profiting from our nation’s failure to provide a high-quality education to all children has become a very big business. Cutting School deftly traces the financing of segregated education in America, from reconstruction through Brown v. Board of Education up to the current controversies around school choice, teacher quality, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more, to elucidate t
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- Author
- Rooks, Noliwe M
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781620976319
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education, Political Science, Government & Politics
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (173 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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