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Boom for whom? : education, desegregation, and development in Charlotte / Stephen Samuel Smith.
Van Pelt Library LC214.523.C48 S63 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Stephen Samuel, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Busing for school integration--North Carolina--Charlotte--History.
- Busing for school integration.
- Education, Urban--Political aspects--North Carolina--Charlotte.
- Education, Urban.
- School improvement programs--North Carolina--Charlotte.
- School improvement programs.
- Education, Urban--Political aspects.
- History.
- Charlotte (N.C.)--Politics and government.
- Charlotte (N.C.).
- Charlotte (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
- North Carolina--Charlotte.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 328 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Bringing a new perspective to Charlotte's landmark school desegregation efforts, Stephen Samuel Smith provides a multi-faceted history of the nationally-praised mandatory busing plan and the court battle that led to its ultimate demise. Although both black and white children benefited from busing, its most ongoing consequences were not educational, but the political and economic ones that served the interests of Charlotte's business elite and facilitated the city's economic boom. Drawing on urban regime theory, Smith shows how busing enhanced civic capacity and was part of a political alliance between Charlotte's business elite and black political leaders. This account of Charlotte's history has national implications for desegregation, urban education, efforts to build civic capacity, and the political involvement of the urban poor.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Background: Regime Politics and the Purest Strain of the Southern Booster Gene 23
- Chapter 3 Swann's Way and the Heyday of Charlotte's Busing Plan 57
- Chapter 4 Swan Song for the Busing Plan? 91
- Chapter 5 Political Fluidity and the Alchemy of School Reform 107
- Chapter 6 Desegregation Buried in Potter's Field? The Reactivation of the Swann Case 147
- Chapter 7 The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Compromise? 173
- Chapter 8 School Desegregation and the Uphill Flow of Civic Capacity 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791459853
- 0791459861
- OCLC:
- 54073920
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