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ERIC Number: EJ1444426
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-2377-8253
EISSN: EISSN-2377-8261
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Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K-12 Schools and Other Public Services
Angela Simms
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, v9 n2 p204-25 2023
In the United States, most local jurisdictions are challenged as they seek to maintain fiscal strength. But majority-Black jurisdictions are uniquely burdened due to legacy and contemporary racist and racialized policies and racial capitalism. Leaders in majority-Black locales make harsher budget trade-offs than those in majority-White jurisdictions as they seek to invest in public schools and other public services. I use ethnographic and publicly available data to examine how Prince George's County, Maryland, a majority-Black and middle-class suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., region, navigates its financial constraints relative to neighboring counties with smaller Black populations. I conclude that Black jurisdictions' fiscal limitations stem from White jurisdictions' not bearing their proportionate share of responsibility for moderate-income and economically distressed households and fallout from uneven regional development, resulting in Black jurisdictions subsidizing White locales.
Russell Sage Foundation. 112 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065. Tel: 212-750-6000; e-mail: journal@rsage.org; Web site: www.rsfjournal.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Maryland; District of Columbia
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