ABSTRACT
Throughout the United States segregated schools are becoming more the norm. As class mobility and a racist real estate market make predominantly white neighborhoods more common, especially in areas where new expensive homes are constructed, schools are being built to meet the needs of these neighborhoods, inner-city schools or schools in small cities or towns close to downtown areas tend to be the ones that have ethnic diversity. Many are predominantly black, Hispanic, or are composed of a non-white ethnic mixture. This ipso facto racial segregation is usually seen as having nothing to do with institutionalized racism but rather is deemed more a class issue. The old racial segregation in education is being reinscribed, complete with schools deemed inferior that are composed of our nation’s non-white poor and working class; those schools receive less funding and, as a consequence, lack resources for needed supplies. And yet individual African-Americans 68are more inclined than ever to support segregated schools because they fear the racist biases that shape curriculum, and the perspectives of unenlightened racist teachers of all colors, in public schools.
