Dionne Danns

Crossing Segregated Boundaries

Remembering Chicago School Desegregation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978810068
• ISBN-10: 1978810067
• Artikelnr.: 58671025

Autorenporträt

DIONNE DANNS is a professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy Implementation, Politics, and Protest, 1965-1985 and Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971, and the co-editor of Using Past as Prologue: Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction               
1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy       
                       
2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences        
3 "The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community": Choosing and
Traveling to High Schools                                   
4 "I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not": Academic Experiences and
Curriculum 
5 "We Were from All Over Town": Interracial Experiences in and out of
School                  
6 "We All Got Along": Difficulties and Difference                
7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits                    
Conclusion: Continuing Inequality                            
                                               
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index