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The research provides insight into the inner workings of beliefs and values of educational leaders at Blakesdale regarding issues of desegregation, equity, and diversity with a hope that the findings in this study could offer empirical strategies for school improvement through racial harmony. The study also seeks to contribute to the body of literature on the value of integration in public schools and how it can enhance the experiences of marginalized groups within the education system in the United States. My analysis is a structural approach that calls for more progressive way of thinking about public schooling from the bottom up. This study is a critical ethnography used to investigate the impact of race talk on education policymaking structurally at the local school district level. 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