Dr. Zoë Burkholder on The Oxford Comment

Dr. Zoë Burkholder, Professor in the Educational Foundation Department, recently appeared on The Oxford Comment, hosted by the Oxford University Press.

Black History Month celebrates the achievements of a globally marginalized community still fighting for equal representation and opportunity in all areas of life. This includes education.

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled “separate but equal” unconstitutional for American public schools in “Brown v. Board of Education.” While this ruling has been celebrated as a pivotal victory for civil rights, it has not endured without challenge.

In this episode, The Oxford Comment spoke with Dr. Burkholder, author of An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North and Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954, and Nina M. Yancy, author of the upcoming How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America, examining issues around education, integration, and segregation through their scholarship. In particular, they discussed segregation in northern schools and a recent case study from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.