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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
By Ewing, Eve L.
- ISBN
- 9780226526027
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Starred Review on October 15, 2018 | Social Sciences
In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that dozens of Chicago's public schools would be shut down. Eventually 49 neighborhood schools in largely black sections of the Windy City closed, an unprecedented move that sparked immediate backlash. "A fight for a school is never just about a school," Ewing (Univ. of Chicago Sch. of Social Service Administration) notes in her bracing account of that turbulent time, relying on a blend of h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
