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Jamel K. Donnor, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Education with affiliations in American Studies and the Center for Racial & Social Justice at William & Mary.
Professor Donnor is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies law, American Education, and the experiences of Black people in the United States. He has served as a rebuttal expert in Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority.
Professor Donnor has been quoted in major media outlets such as USA Today, The 74, The Conversation, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Mississippi Free Press. He has coedited five books, including Scandals in College Sports, Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a Song (2nd, ed,), The Charter School Solution: Distinguishing Fact from Rhetoric, and The Resegregation of Schools: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century.
Professor Donnor earned his Ph.D. in Education from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University.
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The Resegregation of Schools: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
School of Education Books
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Jamel K Donnor, College of William and Mary
Access to a quality education remains the primary mechanism for improving one’s life chances in the United States, and for children of color, a “good education” is particularly linked to their individual and collective well-being. Despite the popular perception that America is in a “post-racial” epoch, opportunities to access quality learning environments and human development resources remain determined according to race, class, gender, and ability. Taking a more nuanced approach to race and the resegregation of the American school system, this volume examines how and why the education quality for the majority of students of color in America remains fundamentally unequal.
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Toward a New Understanding of the Relationship Between Race, Major College Sports, and American Higher Education
Publications
White Fear, White Flight, the Rules of Racial Standing and Whiteness as Property: Why Two Critical Race Theory Constructs are Better Than One
Educational Policy (2021)
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Jamel Donnor, College of William and Mary
Despite earning the highest grade point average (GPA) in her graduating class at the recently integrated Cleveland High School (CHS) in Cleveland, Mississippi, Ms. Jasmine Shepard, an African-American female, was named “co-valedictorian” with Ms. Heather Bouse, a White female, who had a lower GPA. Utilizing Derrick Bell’s rules of racial standing theory and Cheryl Harris’ analytical construct whiteness as property, this article examines Ms. Shepard’s lawsuit against the Cleveland School District. In addition to explaining how White flight was deployed as a policy distraction to justify the inequitable treatment of Ms. Jasmine Shepard, this article posits that the specter of Ms. Shepard becoming Cleveland High School’s first Black valedictorian triggered area Whites’ fear of losing the property value of their whiteness.
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