After Brown : the rise and retreat of school desegregation / Charles T. Clotfelter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clotfelter, Charles T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--United States.

School integration.

Segregation in education--United States.

Segregation in education.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact between students of different racial groups--has changed over the fifty years since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed enrollment data covering the first decade after Brown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment. Two main conclusions emerge. First, interracial contact in American schools and colleges increased markedly over the period, with the most dramatic changes occurring in the previously segregated South. Second, despite this change, four main factors prevented even larger increases: white reluctance to accept racially mixed schools, the multiplicity of options for avoiding such schools, the willingness of local officials to accommodate the wishes of reluctant whites, and the eventual loss of will on the part of those who had been the strongest protagonists in the push for desegregation. Thus decreases in segregation within districts were partially offset by growing disparities between districts and by selected increases in private school enrollment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Walls Came Tumbling Down

CHAPTER TWO. The Legacies of Brown and Milliken

CHAPTER THREE. Residential Segregation and "White Flight"

CHAPTER FOUR. The Private School Option

CHAPTER FIVE. Inside Schools: Classrooms and School Activities

CHAPTER SIX. Higher Learning and the Color Line

CHAPTER SEVEN. So What?

Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613291066

9781283291064

1283291061

9781400841332

140084133X

OCLC:

757261046