Deny, Defund, Divert: Janel George on Race and Justice in Education

Janel George, a Georgetown Law professor, who explores race and justice in education, recently wrote a paper that moved us here at Integrated Schools. Called "Deny, Defund, and Divert: The Law and American Miseducation", the piece outlines historical and modern systemic educational inequalities faced by Black communities, linked to legislative actions and adaptations of White supremacy.

She joins us to talk about legislative lawyering, the importance of community engagement when making public policy, and the ongoing role of systemic racism in our legal and education systems. Ms. George shares her vision for a racially just education system, and highlights the ways the battle to achieve that vision require us to understand the past and see the threads of past efforts to deny education to Black students, to defund education focused on Black students, and to divert Black educators away from eduction, in our current struggles.

LINKS: 

• Ms. George's article Deny, Defund, and Divert: The Law and American Miseducation
• Ms. Geroge's Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic
• Chai Feldbum on Legislative Lawyering
• Derek Black - Schoolhouse Burning
• UCLA's CRT Forward Tracking Project
• Cara McClellan - Challenging Legacy Discrimination: The Persistence of School Pushout as Racial Subordination
• The 1619 Project
• Our live show from May
• Dr. Leslie Fenwick on our show
• Dr. Leslie Fenwick's Jim Crow's Pink Slip
• Dr. Elizabeth McRae on our show
• Dr. Elizabeth McRae's Mother's Of Massive Resistance

 

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The Integrated Schools Podcast was created by Courtney Mykytyn and Andrew Lefkowits.

This episode was produced by Andrew Lefkowits and Val Brown. It was edited, and mixed by Andrew Lefkowits.

Music by Kevin Casey.

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