Schools, Space, and the Political Economy of Educational Inequality

• In Event: Location, Location, Location! The Politics of Race and Space

Abstract

In recent years, the historiography of American education has significantly shifted towards a focus on political economy and the spatial dimensions of educational inequality. In this body of work, there is concern for how educational inequality is constructed and maintained against certain backdrops, such as metropolitan development, race and class politics, housing, or economic transitions. This scholarship highlights the interplay of political processes and actors as they unfold in settings from the metropolis and into more suburban and less populated areas This paper provides a survey of recent scholarship that embody these trends as well as suggestions for future directions the field could take.

Author

• Hunter Holt, University of Virginia