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Cindy Hyde-Smith's Segregation Academy
Noliwe Rooks, the director of American Studies at Cornell University, former associate director of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of, Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education (The New Press, 2017), links newly elected Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's controversial comments during the campaign to the publicly funded "segregation academy" she attended and discusses the impact of those schools on public education in the South.