Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. Which denials of opportunity experienced by students of color should be remedied? Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today--and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it.


Pollock encountered these debates while working at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil R...