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Episode 5: Ruthie Yow / When John Roberts's Words Cease to Matter
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Ruthie Yow, a historian and ethnographer of student activism and public school integration in the South, takes Chief Justice John Roberts to task for his majority opinion in the landmark Supreme Court case of 2007, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. Her study of the legacy of the high court's Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, specifically in Marietta, Georgia, is the subject of her book, Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City (Harvard UP, 2017). Read more at the Georgia Tech Writing and Communication Program's online journal TechSTYLE: http://b.gatech.edu/2mVRUe6
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