Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

The book presents and analyzes a study that Shedd carried out. The study offers perspective on schools and police straight from children of Chicago. The topics of justice and police practice are often understood through data, and Shedd provides plenty of that. But reading the exact words of the children she interviewed is what resonates most with me.

I appreciate the message that the author is conveying. However, the data that the author references is not current. The information is repetitive from chapter to chapter. From reading this book, I learned the same information that I gained from reading Savage Inequalities 16 years ago.

I loved this book. I think it looked at perceptions of injustice in a different way and shed light on the multitude of harms neighborhood segregation can cause.

Good book was needed for class.

Great book!

Unequal City is brilliant; an enlightening resource for anyone who works with young people - teachers, administrators, public safety professionals, parents, non-parents, and more. The book paints a holistic picture of what many young people really have to fight through to get an education (and simply live!). Draws us into the systemic root of educational injustice, and refuses to allow the reader to 'blame the victim' about school children. Instead helps the reader to grapple with how they (or their own children) might handle the adult situations unfairly and consistently forced on many young people as they work to claim human rights, like education. An excellent read that I've recommended to others many times.