Geographies of Difference powerfully documents the multitude of socio-educational processes
that construct differentiated students educators and educational practices within cities.
Through a case study of a large metropolitan school district this book identifies how the
conversations and practices of educators citywide media and political relations codify
students schools and city spaces with spatial metaphors that obscure as well as denote
meanings about race and social class. It argues that through these practices of codification
educational processes of constructing and differentiating populations and spaces work in
concert with broader city media and political discourses to create differentiated curricular
and pedagogical offerings for students in different parts of the city. Geographies of
Difference also posits that these overlapping school and citywide practices result in
propelling and naturalizing re-segregated schools and cities. Geographies of Difference is
written for students and scholars working in urban education multicultural education media
studies and social foundation.
