“Segregated Education,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, explains the history of educational inequities in the U.S. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.
“Our education system owes everything to the Civil War-era freedoms gained by African Americans,” Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, said in her podcast. “The inequalities institutionalized during that period remain with us today.”
An interdisciplinary scholar, Rooks works on the cultural and racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment; race, capitalism and education; as well as black women and material culture. She is the author of four books, most recently “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education” (2017), which won an…
