University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Traces of a racist past: Uncovering pushout and North Carolina’s post-Brown educational politics

Evans, M. Alex

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/110551

Description

Title
Traces of a racist past: Uncovering pushout and North Carolina’s post-Brown educational politics
Author(s)
Evans, M. Alex
Issue Date
2021-04-22
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Herrera, Linda
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Herrera, Linda
Committee Member(s)
  • Anderson, James D
  • Hopson, Rodney
  • Jefferson, Brian J
Department of Study
Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp
Discipline
Educational Policy Studies
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • school pushout
  • school discipline
  • desegregation
  • voting rights
  • police-free schools
  • police abolition
  • school-to-prison pipeline
  • CRT
  • Black Geography
  • Musical Discourse Analysis
Abstract
This study examines North Carolina’s past educational politics from the desegregation era as a means to better contextualize its modern-day school pushout crisis. It marks desegregation as the bedrock for racialized school pushout as white resistance to integration proved difficult and at times dangerous for Black students as they entered formerly all-white educational spaces. As modern Black students are continually suspended from schools at racially disproportionate rates, the study seeks to gain a better understanding of the social and political context that allows for the racial disparities to persist. The study pinpoints Black North Carolinians’ struggle for voting rights crucial for analysis as it can be correlated with the struggle to keep Black students in schools, as concurrent a form of racialized disenfranchisement. With North Carolina at the center of major legal battles concerning voting rights at the time of this writing, this study examines modern-day advocacy and takes a look back to advocacy prior to the Voting Rights of 1965.
Graduation Semester
2021-05
Type of Resource
Thesis
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110551
Copyright and License Information
© 2021 M. Alex Evans

Owning Collections

Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois PRIMARY
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois
Dissertations and Theses - Education
Dissertations and Theses from the College of Education