CBH Talk | Noliwe Rooks and Sonya Douglass Discuss “Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children”

Noliwe Rooks is one of the most admired scholars in education today. In her new book, Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children,” she traces four generations of her own family’s educational journey to challenge the idea that integration was a boon for Black children. Rooks weaves together sociological data and cultural history in an incisive reckoning that lays the responsibility where it rightfully belongs and demonstrates that systemic educational inequality is not sustainable for a viable democracy. Join her in a conversation led by Sonya Douglass, Founding Director of the Black Education Research Center at Teachers College, for a deep dive into the prism of integration and the impact of its failure on America’s democracy.