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Educational Studies
A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association
Volume 57, 2021 - Issue 4
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White Skin, Black Blood: The Deconstruction of Plessy v. Ferguson

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Abstract

This investigation employs the deconstruction techniques of Jacques Derrida to critique the Plessy v. Ferguson Citation1896 Supreme Court decision which segregated the Public Schools. Overturned by Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka 1954, Plessy’s racist message reverberates today in the cultural divide, in right-wing media, in politics, and in white supremacist propaganda. The core argument is that Plessy is a paradigm case of racism rooted in metaphysical language.

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