The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee
School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8221998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Genevieve Siegel-Hawley (Virginia Commonwealth University), Genevieve Siegel‐hawley (0000-0003-0700-594X, Virginia Commonwealth University, corresponding author), Sarah Diem (0000-0003-0798-5220, University of Missouri), Elizabeth Frankenberg (0000-0002-9224-7734, Pennsylvania State University), Erica Frankenberg (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 651-692 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0002831217748880 |
| OpenAlex | W2793168963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 51 |
In this qualitative case study, we explore the political impulses behind suburban secession from the 2013 Memphis-Shelby County merger, the largest school district consolidation in recent history. Decades removed from the Civil Rights Movement, during a period of stark inequality, colorblind law and policymaking, and a diminished understanding of education as a societal benefit, the central suburban rationale for secession, local control, carries new weight. It gives already privileged communities a race-neutral, legally sanctioned, and politically persuasive way to discuss resource accumulation that maps onto existing racial and economic segregation. Memphis-area lessons offer insight into an increasing number of secession struggles and enrich our understanding of how educational advantage is consolidated in the 21st-century metropolis
Civil rights · Consolidation (business · Desegregation · Economics · Inequality · Memphis · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Secession · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Subsidized housing and school segregation
Racial integration through two-way dual language immersion
Computational social science and critical studies of education and technology
Building Civic Capacity
The Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Dynamics of Public School District Secession, 1995–2015
Helping the Cause or Fanning the Flames? County Council Involvement in a Post-Pics School Desegregation Effort
The Demographics of School District Secession
Collective Racial Bias and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Resisting Amnesia
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes
Race was a motivating factor
Partisan Schools
The Political Economy of Subprime Educational Policy
Unregulated Open Enrollment and Inequitable Access to Schools of Choice
Equity for All? Black Students and Locally Controlled Funding
Goals, Rhetoric, and (In)Equity
Missing the Forest for the Trees
Defending the Color Line
Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever? Racial and Economic Isolation and Dissimilarity in Rural Black Belt Schools in Alabama
My School District Isn't Segregated
American apartheid
Metropolitan Desegregation
Democracy in Suburbia
White Flight
American Dream and Public Schools
Increasingly Segregated and Unequal Schools as Courts Reverse Policy
Buying Homes, Buying Schools
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
Integrated Schooling, Life Course Outcomes, and Social Cohesion in Multiethnic Democratic Societies
School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Housing Prices
Laissez-Faire Racism
The color of law
Simple Justice
Why Busing Failed
The Silent Majority
Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools
Racial Residential Segregation of School-Age Children and Adults
Splintering School Districts
School Choice Policies and Racial Segregation
Redefining Diversity
Regional Governance in Education
Red Lines, Black Spaces
The Fractured Metropolis
The changing structure of school segregation
School Segregation and Its Discontents
Controlling Public Education
Segregation by District Boundary Line
Eleventh Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research
The Ecological Basis of School Board Member Recruitment
Making the Unequal Metropolis
Does School Policy Affect Housing Choices? Evidence From the End of Desegregation in Charlotte–Mecklenburg
From bi-racial to tri-racial
School District Fragmentation and Racial Residential Segregation
The Polls--Trends
Trends
Besieged
Race, Culture, and Researcher Positionality
Qualitative Data Analysis
Decomposing School Resegregation
Inequality in Children's Contexts
Closing Ranks
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |