Contents
Introduction to the Issue | john a. powell, Samuel L. Myers Jr., and Susan T. Gooden
Part I. Historical and Legal Context of Racial Exclusion
The Law and Significance of Plessy | john a. powell
Who Gets to Say Who’s Who? Plessy’s Insidious Legacy | Thomas J. Davis
Segregated Spaces and Separated Races: The Relationship Between State-Sanctioned Violence, Place, and Black Identity | Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Seong C. Kang, and Brian N. Williams
“Separate, Therefore Equal”: American Spatial Segregation from Jim Crow to Kiryas Joel | Shai Stern
Part II. Housing and Spatial Segregation
Plessy’s Legacy: The Government’s Role in the Development and Perpetuation of Segregated Neighborhoods | Leland Ware
Confronting the Legacy of “Separate but Equal”: Can the History of Race, Real Estate, and Discrimination Engage and Inform Contemporary Policy? | Jason Reece
Legacies of Segregation and Disenfranchisement: The Road from Plessy to Frank and Voter ID Laws in the United States | Paru Shah and Robert S. Smith
Part III. Educational Segregation
Harlan’s Dissent: Citizenship, Education, and the Color-Conscious Constitution | Douglas S. Reed
Does the Negro Need Separate Schools? A Retrospective Analysis of the Racial Composition of Schools and Black Adult Academic and Economic Success | Timothy M. Diette, Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith, and William A. Darity Jr.
Separate and Unequal Under One Roof: How the Legacy of Racialized Tracking Perpetuates Within-School Segregation | Dania V. Francis and William A. Darity Jr.