"It's a Little, Tiny Process": Gentrification, Inequality, and Fragmented Resistance to School Choice.

This article investigates why popular support for neighborhood schools does not translate into stronger multi-racial and multi-class coalitions for neighborhood schools in the face of school choice systems and school closures. Using a critical place perspective, this article illustrates how place-based urban inequities facilitate fragmented resistances to school choice. Racialized dispossession, the post-Civil Rights abandonment of poor and working-class Black political interests, and a broader strategy to bring affluent populations to the city core are all hallmarks of neoliberal urban development. These contexts shape and fatigue small-scale, ephemeral, and fragmented movements for neighborhood schools, inhibiting the formation of movement coalitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]