Ujju Aggarwal is assistant professor of anthropology and experiential learning at The New School. She is coeditor of What’s Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality.

"Brilliant in her artistry, Ujju Aggarwal carries us across narrative maps of an extraordinary set of relations. Her geographic analysis compels us into tense and complex terrains of partition and possibility: neighborhood, community, and school. Unsettling Choice exquisitely collides scale to consider vast histories and conditions of publics, choice, gentrification, abandonment, and more while simultaneously centering the profoundly intimate, local story of a group of women practicing radical care. Read this book, and be moved and transformed."-Sabina Vaught, coauthor of The School-Prison Trust   "Unsettling Choice combines ethnographic encounters with race theory emanating from Black studies and critical geography to present a nuanced understanding of how education and housing are structurally formed by race, class, and gender. Ujju Aggarwal's book is a must-read to understand the racialized violence inherent within one of the most fundamental aspects of education in the United States: the logic of choice."-Damien M. Sojoyner, author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles   "Recommended."-CHOICE   "Activists, researchers, and educators will find Unsettling Choice an important guidebook. It maps out where we came from, makes us aware of our current surroundings, and gives us a North Star to navigate a path forward where all students are unquestionably valued."-Anthropology & Education

• Contents Introduction 1. The Historical Production of Limited Permanence in Manhattan Valley 2. The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics 3. Diversity, Choice, and the Myopia of Partitioned Publics 4. Mapping the Spaces of Care and Social Reproduction Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Ujju Aggarwal is assistant professor of anthropology and experiential learning at The New School. She is coeditor of What’s Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality.

"Brilliant in her artistry, Ujju Aggarwal carries us across narrative maps of an extraordinary set of relations. Her geographic analysis compels us into tense and complex terrains of partition and possibility: neighborhood, community, and school. Unsettling Choice exquisitely collides scale to consider vast histories and conditions of publics, choice, gentrification, abandonment, and more while simultaneously centering the profoundly intimate, local story of a group of women practicing radical care. Read this book, and be moved and transformed."-Sabina Vaught, coauthor of The School-Prison Trust   "Unsettling Choice combines ethnographic encounters with race theory emanating from Black studies and critical geography to present a nuanced understanding of how education and housing are structurally formed by race, class, and gender. Ujju Aggarwal's book is a must-read to understand the racialized violence inherent within one of the most fundamental aspects of education in the United States: the logic of choice."-Damien M. Sojoyner, author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles   "Recommended."-CHOICE   "Activists, researchers, and educators will find Unsettling Choice an important guidebook. It maps out where we came from, makes us aware of our current surroundings, and gives us a North Star to navigate a path forward where all students are unquestionably valued."-Anthropology & Education

• Contents Introduction 1. The Historical Production of Limited Permanence in Manhattan Valley 2. The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics 3. Diversity, Choice, and the Myopia of Partitioned Publics 4. Mapping the Spaces of Care and Social Reproduction Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Ujju Aggarwal is assistant professor of anthropology and experiential learning at The New School. She is coeditor of What’s Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality.

"Brilliant in her artistry, Ujju Aggarwal carries us across narrative maps of an extraordinary set of relations. Her geographic analysis compels us into tense and complex terrains of partition and possibility: neighborhood, community, and school. Unsettling Choice exquisitely collides scale to consider vast histories and conditions of publics, choice, gentrification, abandonment, and more while simultaneously centering the profoundly intimate, local story of a group of women practicing radical care. Read this book, and be moved and transformed."-Sabina Vaught, coauthor of The School-Prison Trust   "Unsettling Choice combines ethnographic encounters with race theory emanating from Black studies and critical geography to present a nuanced understanding of how education and housing are structurally formed by race, class, and gender. Ujju Aggarwal's book is a must-read to understand the racialized violence inherent within one of the most fundamental aspects of education in the United States: the logic of choice."-Damien M. Sojoyner, author of First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles   "Recommended."-CHOICE   "Activists, researchers, and educators will find Unsettling Choice an important guidebook. It maps out where we came from, makes us aware of our current surroundings, and gives us a North Star to navigate a path forward where all students are unquestionably valued."-Anthropology & Education

• Contents Introduction 1. The Historical Production of Limited Permanence in Manhattan Valley 2. The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics 3. Diversity, Choice, and the Myopia of Partitioned Publics 4. Mapping the Spaces of Care and Social Reproduction Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index