Students of the Dream : Resegregation in a Southern City / Ruth Carbonette Yow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yow, Ruth Carbonette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation in education--Georgia--Marietta.

Segregation in education.

School integration--Georgia--Marietta.

School integration.

Discrimination in education--Georgia--Marietta.

Discrimination in education.

Marietta (Ga.)--Social conditions.

Marietta (Ga.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Documenting the half-century-long drama of integration in Marietta, Georgia, Students of the Dream grapples with the past, present, and future of integrated schooling in America. Once the most desegregated region in the country, the South is now facing rapid resegregation of its schools. The widespread failure to address resegregation--at the level of local, state, and national education policy--endangers the destinies of millions of the South's, and the nation's, most vulnerable children. This book poses school resegregation as the fundamental social justice battle of our time. It offers historical context as well as contemporary findings to reveal the origins and evolution of a new integration era, which in some ways draws on, and in other ways rejects, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. Students of the Dream describes generations of student "dreamers": from those who made real the dream of integrated schooling in the years after the 1954 Brown v. Board decision to those who fight for educational justice today.-- Provided by pulbisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Blue Devil Pride: Marietta Football in the Long Integration Era

2. Fifty Years of “Freedom”: School Choice and Structural Inequality in Marietta City Schools

3. Some Kinds of Blue: Tracking at Marietta High

4. The New Integrators: Latino Students

Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: Integration Is Not a Policy Goal—It’s a Movement

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9780674981409

0674981405

9780674981393

0674981391

OCLC:

1054879557