{"product_id":"overturning-brown-the-segregationist-legacy-of-the-modern-school-choice-movement-9781588384201","title":"Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement","description":"School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following Brown v. Board, who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers. In \u003ci\u003eOverturning Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, Steve Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the modern school choice movement to expose the dangers lying behind the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparity has expanded exponentially in the years following Brown v. Board, and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and poverty today. It is only through recognizing the smoke and mirrors that Suitts deftly exposes in \u003ci\u003eOverturning Brown\u003c\/i\u003e that we understand the risk America's underprivileged youth face with school voucher programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and predominately white and wealthy private schools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTEVE SUITTS is an adjunct at the Institute for Liberal Arts of Emory University and has been chief strategist for Better Schools Better Jobs, a Mississippi-based education advocacy project of the New Venture Fund. Suitts began his career as a staff member of the Selma Project. He was founding director of the Alabama Civil Liberties Union; the executive director of the Southern Regional Council; and program coordinator, vice president, and senior fellow of the Southern Education Foundation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOverturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement.\u003c\/i\u003e He was the executive producer and one of the writers of \u003ci\u003eWill the Circle Be Unbroken\u003c\/i\u003e, a thirteen-hour public radio series that received a Peabody Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50921633972498,"sku":"9781588384201","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0896dcb7-f97c-408f-9be5-99eb3b7aa975.jpg?v=1738922170","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/overturning-brown-the-segregationist-legacy-of-the-modern-school-choice-movement-9781588384201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}