Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools

David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago. He holds a bachelor’s degree, M.Ed., and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship focuses on critical race theory, the relationship between housing and education, and the connections among race, place, schools, and the school-to-prison nexus.

Stovall is the author of Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools and Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption. He was also part of the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice in Chicago and served there as a volunteer social studies teacher from 2005 to 2018.

Terrenda White is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder. A sociologist of education, she studies school reform, charter schools, privatization, teachers’ unions, teacher diversity, and the experiences of Black students, families, teachers, and school leaders. She is a former elementary school teacher and previously coordinated education programs for incarcerated students on New York City’s Rikers Island.

White holds a PhD in Sociology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MS in Elementary Education from Loyola Marymount University, and a BS in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University. She is the author of peer-reviewed articles on charter schools, race, school culture, and teacher turnover, and coauthor of Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters and Vouchers on Public Education.

Thomas C. Pedroni is an associate professor of Curriculum Studies and Policy Sociology at Wayne State University, where he also directs the Detroit Data and Democracy Project. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a teaching certificate in secondary social studies from Tulane University, and a B.A. in philosophy with an emphasis in critical social theory from Miami University.

Pedroni’s research examines race, political economy, urban education, educational inequality, and education policy in Detroit. He is the author of Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform, which received the American Educational Studies Association’s 2009 Critics’ Choice Book Award, and Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools. His scholarship has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Teachers College Record and The Urban Review.