The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to
establish social order create political consensus train obedient citizen-workers and
dispatch marginalized groups to their place. Mass public education has helped to forge the
modern political state that enforces social and racial inequality. Disenchanted African
Americans representing dissenting viewpoints have vigorously protested this educational
system which is rooted in segregation differentiated funding falsehoods alienation and
exclusion. This important book belongs in classrooms devoted to achieving racial equality in
public education.
