BvB@67 - Noliwe Rooks Revisited

<p>For the second episode in our <i>Brown v. Board at 67: The Stories We Tell Ourselves</i> series, we talk with <a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/noliwe-rooks">Dr. Noliwe Rooks</a> (Cornell). Her book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18658/9781620975985">Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education</a>, as well as some of her more recent research around the pushback to school desegregation from communities of color and the decimation of the Black teaching corps following Brown v. Board, provide context in which to understand the full range of outcomes from the court decision. </p><p>While Dr. Rucker Johnson, in <a href="https://integratedschools.simplecast.com/episodes/bvb67-johnson">part 1</a>, showed us some of the many benefits of desegregation, Dr. Rooks reminds us of many of the costs, especially to the Black community. She asks us to engage with these stories in order to understand the very real intent behind where we find ourselves today. It is only through changing the stories we tell, that we might envision a different, more equitable future for school integration.</p><p>Register for the Integrated Schools <a href="https://integratedschools.org/book-club/">Book Club </a>in July.  We'll be reading Heather McGhee's <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-sum-of-us-what-racism-costs-everyone-and-how-we-can-prosper-together/9780525509561?aid=18658&listref=integrated-schools-bookclub-books" target="_blank"><i>The Sum of Us</i></a></p><p>Use these links or start at our <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/IntegratedSchools">Bookshop.org storefront</a> to support local bookstores, and send a portion of the proceeds back to us.  </p><p><a href="http://patreon.com/integratedschools" target="_blank"><strong>Join our Patreon</strong></a> to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.</p><p>Let us know what you think of this episode, suggest future topics, or share your story with us - <a href="https://twitter.com/integratedschls"