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The Cultural Politics of Mixed‐Income Schools and Housing: A Racialized Discourse of Displacement, Exclusion, and Control
Author(s) -
Lipman Pauline
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01042.x
Subject(s) - gentrification , sociology , neoliberalism (international relations) , poverty , politics , cultural politics , gender studies , economic growth , social science , political science , economics , law
In this article, I examine the contested and racially coded cultural politics of creating mixed‐income schools in mixed‐income communities. Policymakers claim deconcentrating low‐income people will reduce poverty and improve education. However, based on activist research in Chicago, I argue these policies are grounded in “culture of poverty” theories that pathologize Black1urban space. They legitimate displacement and gentrification and further the neoliberal urban agenda while negating that urban communities of color and their schools are spaces of community. [mixed income, race, neoliberalism, cultural politics]