School rezoning, or redistricting, is the process by which school boards draw and redraw school attendance boundaries. These boundaries are key drivers of racial and economic school segregation but can also work to ameliorate it. Using a critical orientation to narrative policy analysis, this study examined the cultural politics of race and whiteness in an urban school district undergoing school rezoning. Drawing on semistructured interviews with 15 school leaders and community stakeholders, findings provide a lens for school leaders and policymakers to better understand how and to what extent race is imposed in school attendance boundary decisions. Our findings expand current literature on school rezoning by shedding new light on racial narratives embedded within the political process. We conclude with policy and practice implications.

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学校重新分区中的种族叙事：白人政治如何塑造归属感、领导决策和上学界限

学校重新分区或重新分区是学校董事会绘制和重新绘制学校出勤界限的过程。这些界限是种族和经济学校隔离的关键驱动因素，但也可以努力改善它。本研究使用叙事政策分析的批判性取向，研究了正在进行学校重新分区的城市学区中种族和白人的文化政治。通过对 15 位学校领导和社区利益相关者的半结构化访谈，调查结果为学校领导和政策制定者提供了一个视角，以更好地了解种族在学校出勤边界决策中是如何以及在多大程度上施加的。我们的研究结果通过对嵌入在政治进程中的种族叙事提供新的视角，扩展了当前关于学校重新分区的文献。我们总结了政策和实践的影响。