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Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation

Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation

The Glenn Show

September 15, 20231h 2m

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Show Notes

0:00 Biden’s new DEI initiatives

7:59 The disparate uses of disparate impact

13:59 Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

23:15 The problem with claims that education is resegregating

29:56 Are we heading back to the bussing debates of the 1970s?

35:52 Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

44:20 Glenn’s “uncle” objects to analogies between trans people and African Americans

47:58 Shep: Banning Critical Race Theory is the wrong strategy

Recorded September 8, 2023

Links and Readings

Shep’s new book, The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

Heather Mac Donald’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives

Gary Orfield’s book, The Reconstruction of Southern Education: The Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

James Fishkin’s book, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family

Shep’s book, The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

John Skretny’s book, The Minority Rights Revolution

Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism



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