INQ-271 | Brown v. Board of Education

Full Title: The Consequences of Brown v. Board of Education: Assimilation or Genuine Integration?

Topic Description:

What were the advancements and limitations of the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling? How is it that many can explain how Brown v. Board represents social progress at a key moment in history, yet not know about the massive white resistance to its implementation through state refusal to comply and the rise of private schools/school choice? Does desegregation and integration mean the same thing? How does framing desegregation as assimilation more accurately explain the losses students of color experienced in white schools during desegregation and the inequalities many students of color experience in the 21st century?

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: October 2021