Displacement (De)segregation and Dispossession

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>In this illustrative book author </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Rebecca Alexander</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> draws from the lived experiences of the young residents of Glenwood a historically Black suburb and Parkside the historically white wealthy community just across the freeway. Focusing on an anonymised location in California during the sub-prime crisis the book explores issues of segregation and gentrification in US schools and communities while looking at how youth and families work to produce contest question resist and engage racialized space in and beyond schools.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Reframing (de)segregation work through the lens of dispossession displacement borders and frontiers to highlight the historic and ongoing labor of young people families and communities in the context of persistent dispossession the author contextualises experience with theory to demonstrate how concepts in social and educational structures impact real lives.</span></p><p></p>