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“Liberal strategies for achieving economic equality have been bad on a fundamental misconception of the historical evolution of the educational system. Education over the years has never been a potent force for economic equality.” 

This sentiment is mirrored in Ewing’s original sins, Ranita Ray’s Slow Violence, Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods and so many other ethnographies.

The 70s really do seem to be the high point for Marxist knowledge production in US academic institutions