Program on Educational Equity and Policy (PEEPs)
Center for Policy Research

Sean J. Drake joins to discuss his recent book, Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb. Drawing on more than two years of ethnographic observation and dozens of interviews at two distinct high schools in a racially diverse Southern California suburb, Drake unveils hidden institutional mechanisms that lead to the overt segregation and symbolic criminalization of Black, Latinx, and lower-income students who struggle academically. Hosted/edited/mixed by Tyler Bond.

Buy the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520381377/academic-apartheid

Music: "Bluenotation" by Ezra Skull, used under license from ccMixter.