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Podcast: NBN Book of the Day
Episode: Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Description: What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the âproblemâ of school choice actually not about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice engendersâguaranteeing a system of winners and losers? Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education (U Minnesota Press, 2024) addresses such questions through a compelling ethnography that illuminates how one path of neoliberal restructuring in the United States emerged in tandem with, and in response to, the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on ethnographic research in one New York City...