by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 4, 2016 | news, our stories, race
“I grew up in a two-parent, white, middle class household. I’m a third generation college graduate. My parents are educated professionals and they were able to involve themselves in my education. They entered my name into the magnet school lottery more than...
by Courtney Mykytyn | May 27, 2016 | news, race
Coincidentally, I had both of these white privilege articles in my inbox today. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-vs-white-privilege/484355/?utm_source=atlfb#article-comments Audacity of Nope: You Wanted People of Color Then But Don’t...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Apr 19, 2016 | news, race
This is horrible to read. Heartbreaking. But whenever I see these stories (and they are all too common), I think about how these (needed, necessary, important) exposés affect the future of integration. When the stories we hear are so often about how awful poor...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 16, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Reading Courtney Martin’s beautiful piece reflecting on her study abroad year in South Africa (The Third World is Not Your Classroom) got me thinking again about my college-age traveling. Hitchhiking through South America was, yes, different from living with a...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 9, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Two articles today talking about how middle class (mostly white) parents find their way to middle class schools. This from redqueenla talks about the segregation generated by charter schools. This, from Erika Wilson’s forthcoming article in Cornell Law Review outlines...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 8, 2016 | news, our stories, race
I just watched this moving TEDx talk by Stanford Sociologist Prudence Carter. She distinguishes between diversity (a picture of demographics) and integration (where everyone feels that they truly belong). I found this useful in part because it helps tease out...
