Review of Elizabeth Anderson's Imperative of Integration [Book Review]

Theory and Research in Education 11 (1):101-106 (2013)
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Abstract

Notwithstanding some merits of Anderson's celebrated book, in this review essay I challenge her belief in school integration as a proxy for justice. I offer a number of criticisms, not least of which Anderson's habit of cherry picking the empirical evidence to make her argument; the absence of social class in her analysis of racial inequality, and thus her unhelpful homogenizing of 'black America'; and finally her perhaps unintentional, yet nevertheless very real and problematic, denigration of black space.

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Michael S. Merry
University of Amsterdam

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