Race, Class, and Power in Our Schools: Mark and Max from School Colors

Largely considered to be one of the most diverse places in the world, Queens is heralded by its residents for the multitudes of ethnicities, languages, cultures and ways of life that exist there. But diversity isn’t the whole story, especially not in District 28.

Mark and Max are back with Season 2 of School Colors. Season 1 was set in Central Brooklyn and focused on gentrification, Black self determination, and dug deep into the history of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Season 2 finds Mark and Max in Queens and School District 28, a district with a very distinct North side and South side- the further North you go, the fewer Black people there are.

Once again, School Colors does a deep dive on the history in order to tell a story that will feel familiar to people from around the country.

LINKS:

• Code Switch from NPR – featuring School Colors Season 2
• Season 1 of School Colors
• The Brooklyn Movement Center
• S5E19 – ICYMI: School Colors – Mark and Max on our show from 2020
• School Colors Season 1, Episode 6 – Mo’ Charters Mo’ Problems
• The Neighborhood Unit: Schools, Segregation, and the Shaping of the Modern Metropolitan Landscape – Ansley Erickson and Andrew Highsmith
• Episode 5 of the Nice White Parents on District 15’s Diversity Plan
• Miseducation Podcast’s new season – Keeping Score

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The Integrated Schools Podcast was created by Courtney Mykytyn and Andrew Lefkowits.

This episode was produced by Andrew Lefkowits and Val Brown. It was edited, and mixed by Andrew Lefkowits.

Music by Kevin Casey.