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Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform / Derrick Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Segregation in education.
- School integration--United States--History.
- School integration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Combines the personal reflections of a civil rights lawyer who personally handled dozens of school desegregation cases with an argument against the perfect precedent of Brown vs Board of Education. The Brown decision has played an important role in maintaining the racial divide its proponents hoped to close.
- Contents:
- Plessy's long shadow
- Brown's half light
- Brown reconceived : an alternative scenario
- The racial sacrifice covenants
- The interest-convergance covenants
- Brown as an anti-communist decision
- Racism's economic foundation
- School litigation in the nineteenth century
- The school desegregation era
- The end of Brown era
- Brown as landmark : an assessment
- Affirmative Action and racial fortuities in action
- Searching for effective schools in the post-Brown era
- Moving beyond racial fortuity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756234-5
- 1-280-42808-2
- 0-19-803855-0
- 1-60256-501-5
- OCLC:
- 171572532
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