ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes the W. E. B. Du Bois' definition of social justice for Black people to structure his arguments as to how social justice has been denied to African American students in Chicago. He provides examples of racial inequities in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over many decades including the time his was a teacher. The author explains how neoliberal practices of promoting student testing and teacher accountability, CPS school closures with charter school replacement is continuing the racial oppression of black students in CPS. He also explains the "branding" of Black students to present his argument for why racial oppression of Black students and people continues in general and specifically in education. The author describes attention to policy, curriculum, and teaching as his discusses the racialized repression of social justice in CPS. Chicago has fine-tuned its racial oppression against black children systematically and institutionally.
