In this updated second edition, Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond build on their powerful and illuminating study of Riverview to show how the racial achievement gap continues to afflict American schools sixty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. The new edition includes new chapters that highlight what has changed and what remains the same at Riverview and explore how the lessons from the book can inform school change efforts.

Amanda E. Lewis is Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy & College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on how race shapes educational opportunities and on how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life. She has received numerous grants and awards including from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Spencer Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Field Foundation, and the American Sociological Association. Dr. Lewis lectures and consults regularly on issues of racial and educational equity and contemporary forms of racism.
John B. Diamond is Ford Foundation Professor of Sociology and Education Policy at Brown's Department of Sociology and Annenberg Institute for School Reform, where he directs the Center of Work on Race and Education. A sociologist of race and education, he studies the
relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity, examining how educational leadership, policies, and practices operate through school organizations to shape students' educational opportunities and outcomes. An engaged scholar, Diamond has helped create space for community-engaged scholarship in sociology and education. He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2023 and is an American Educational Research Association Fellow.

• Acknowledgments


• Preface: Despite the Best Intentions 2nd Edition


• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: Race, Oppositional Culture, and School Outcomes: Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree?


• Chapter 3: The Road to Detention Is Paved with Good Intentions: Race and Discipline at Riverview


• Chapter 4: "It's Like Two High Schools": Race, Tracking, and Performance Expectations


• Chapter 5: Opportunity Hoarding: Creating and Maintaining Racial Advantage


• Chapter 6: Conclusion


• Chapter 7: Revisiting Riverview


• Chapter 8: What To Do Now


• Appendix: Short Summary of Research Methods


• Notes


• References


• About the Authors


• Index