Solidaristic Perspectives on School Choice and Public Partitioning. A Review of Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education

Authors

Tatiana Geron, Harvard Graduate School of EducationFollow

Abstract

This review of Ujju Aggarwal’s Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) overviews the author’s focus on the critical geography, history, and ethnography of school choice in the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of New York City. The review focuses on the author’s solidaristic approach and perspective as a community organizer in the neighborhood, as well as the book’s conception of “partitioned publics” as a mechanism for racial and class segregation in post-Recession school politics.

Recommended Citation

Geron, T. (2025). Solidaristic Perspectives on School Choice and Public Partitioning. A Review of Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education. Democracy & Education, 33 (2), Article 11.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol33/iss2/11