Our podcast playlists group our episodes under a specific topic or theme, so that you can easily jump in and start learning more about integration work.
Our podcast playlists group our episodes under a specific topic or theme, so that you can easily jump in and start learning more about integration work. This playlist examines how real estate, zoning, and housing policies create, interact, and connect to segregation. For example, episodes in this playlist look at the historical legacy of redlining and how redlining still affects segregation today. Episodes also discuss gentrification from a first-hand experience and perspective, and episodes examine the complicated racial history and politics of The Suburbs.
S7E4 – Redrawing the Lines: Undoing the History of Segregation
Tomás Monarrez’s work at The Urban Institute focuses on school segregation. As an economist, he brings quantitative skills and a deep respect for data. We discuss the ways we have thought about segregation are problematic, and where the low-hanging fruit is to try to improve desegregation through the country.
S10E3 – There Goes the Neighborhood with Jade Adia
Gentrification sucks . . . yet change is inevitable. We’re joined today by Young Adult author, Jade Adia, whose first novel, There Goes The Neighborhood takes place in a fictional neighborhood in South LA being wracked by gentrification. We discuss Jade’s personal story and how it led to her writing this novel, and we discuss ways of getting involved and finding connection in our neighborhoods.
S9E4: What’s up with the suburbs?: Organizing, Building Relationships, and Voting
The mostly White vision of the suburbs baked into our popular conception doesn’t match the reality of today. The impacts of this are being felt in elections around the country, and the implications for education, and particularly the possibility of integrated schools, is huge. Dr. Jasmine Clark was the first Black woman elected to a suburban district in Georgia. She joins us to discuss.
S10E5 – Taking Just Action for Integration with Richard and Leah Rothstein
Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law unveiled institutionalized racial segregation and its lingering impacts on our country. The ways that we are segregated today were caused by intentional governmental policies, and we have yet to redress the harm caused. Richard’s daughter Leah, joined him to write Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. They both join us to talk about the books and role we all have to play in creating the true multiracial democracy we are striving for.
S5E8 – The Impacts of Testing Our Kids and Ranking Our Schools (Part 2)
Nearly every public school in the country gets a rating from GreatSchools.org. What goes into these ratings, and what is the impact of having a national school rating system. Matt Barnum (Chalkbeat) joins us to discuss the ways these ratings can nudge families away from schools with higher concentrations of Black and Brown students.
S5E1 – Gentrification and School Segregation
Dr. Kfir Mordechay joins us to discuss gentrification and school segregation. In many places we are living together, but still not learning together. What are the impacts of that disconnect?
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