The following is an excerpt from "Can You Hear Me Now? The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson", by Micheal Eric Dyson, 2009.
There has been a profound resegregation of American schools. More than seventy percent of black students in the nation attend schools that are composed largely of minority students. The segregation of black students is more than twenty-five points below 1969 levels, but there are still plenty of financially strapped schools that make a mockery of the judicial mandate for integrated education. White students typically attend schools where less than twenty percent of the student body comes from races other than their own. By comparison, black and brown students go to schools composed of fifty-three to fifty-five percent of their own race. In some cases, the numbers are substantially higher; more than a third of black and Latino students attend schools with a ninety-to one hundred-percent minority population. In tandem with residential segregation, school resegregation amounts to little more than educational apartheid.
There has been a profound resegregation of American schools. More than seventy percent of black students in the nation attend schools that are composed largely of minority students. The segregation of black students is more than twenty-five points below 1969 levels, but there are still plenty of financially strapped schools that make a mockery of the judicial mandate for integrated education. White students typically attend schools where less than twenty percent of the student body comes from races other than their own. By comparison, black and brown students go to schools composed of fifty-three to fifty-five percent of their own race. In some cases, the numbers are substantially higher; more than a third of black and Latino students attend schools with a ninety-to one hundred-percent minority population. In tandem with residential segregation, school resegregation amounts to little more than educational apartheid.
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