Photograph by Ruthie Yow. Logo by Yongmin Kim.
In Flash Reading 5, former Brittain Fellow Ruthie Yow (2015-17) takes Chief Justice John Roberts to task for his majority opinion in the landmark Supreme Court case of 2007, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. According to Yow, the Court’s decision indexes “the impoverished state of integration strategies” in public schools throughout the country and the “very ambiguous legacy” of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954. Her study of that legacy in the flagship public high school of her hometown, Marietta, Georgia, is the subject of her book, Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City, just out from Harvard University Press.
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In the new year you can look forward to Flash Readings by Brittain Fellows Matt Dischinger, Jeff Fallis, and Anna Ioanes. Catch you in 2018!
Works Cited
The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles. University of California Regents, 2017, civilrightsproject.ucla.edu. Accessed 3 Dec. 2017.
Frankenberg, Erica, and Gary Orfield, eds. The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2012.
Roberts, John. “Majority Opinion.” Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 551 U.S. 701, 28 June 2007, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. Opinion Announcement. Oyez, Cornell Legal Information Institute, Justia, and Chicago-Kent School of Law, 2017, oyez.org/cases/2006/05-908. Sound Recording. Accessed 3 Dec. 2017.
Yow, Ruth Carbonette. Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2017.
