What’s Race Got To Do With It?

Edwin Mayorga is Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Latin American/Latinx Studies at Swarthmore College. He is completing his first book, Dominance and Sobrevivencia: The Barrio and Latinx Education in the Midst of Racial Capitalist Urbanism. Ujju Aggarwal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School. She is completing her first book, The Color of Choice: Raced Rights and the Structure of Citizenship in Education, a historically informed ethnography of choice as it emerged in the post-Civil Rights period in the United States. Bree Picower is Associate Professor at Montclair State University. She is the author of Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets and co-editor of Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice.

Acknowledgments – Edwin Mayorga/Ujju Aggarwal/Bree Picower: Introduction to the Second Edition – Wayne Au: High-Stakes Testing: A Tool for White Supremacy for Over 100 Years – Edwin Mayorga/Tom Liam Lynch: Data Analytics: Population Racism and the Dangers of "Objective" Educational Data – Brian Jones: Keys to the Schoolhouse: Black Teachers, Education Reform and the Growing Teacher Rebellion – Ujju Aggarwal: School Choice: Raced Rights and Neoliberal Restructuring – David Stovall: Mayoral Control: Reform, Whiteness and Critical Race Analysis of Neoliberal Educational Policy – Pauline Lipman: School Closings: Racial Capitalism, State Violence and Resistance – Terrenda White: Charter Schools: Demystifying Whiteness in a Market of "No Excuses" Charter Schools – Amy Brown: Philanthrocapitalism: Race, Class and the Nonprofit Industrial Complex in a New York City School – Rick Ayers/William Ayers: Afterword: A Letter to the Resistance – About the Editors – About the Contributors – Index.