The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility

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The Racing of Capability and Culpability in Desegregated Schools: Discourses of Merit and Responsibility

ABSTRACT

I wonder what you'll name my sin: Complicity? Loyalty? Stupefaction? How can you tell the difference? Is my sin a failure of virtue, or of competence?