Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side Tibetan Buddhism from the long winters of

from the long winters of the Midwest

and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage's joys upon men and its silences on women

we will continue to court chronic disease

brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side Tibetan Buddhism from the long winters ofFailing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools. Thats how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown