Learning and Organizing for School Integration in Public Spaces

• In Event: Parent Voice and Student (Dis)Empowerment in School Choice Processes

Abstract

This paper describes how the every-day-acts of organizing as a collective group of white and/or middle-class mothers, Parents for Equity (PFE), provided for moments of learning where white and/or middle-class parents contested commonsense racialized ideologies around school quality, purposes of public education, and notions of equity in education to rearticulate discourse and visions for the possibilities of what public schools can and should be.

Author

• Talia S. Leibovitz, University of California - Berkeley