Making the Unequal Metropolis : School Desegregation and Its Limits / Ansley T. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Ansley T., Author.

Series:

Historical studies of urban America.

Historical Studies of Urban America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School integration--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century.

School integration.

Segregation in education--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century.

Segregation in education.

Educational equalization--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century.

Educational equalization.

Busing for school integration--Tennessee--Nashville--History--20th century.

Busing for school integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways that schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in fact-via land-use decisions, curricula, and other tools-helped sustain inequality. Taking Nashville as her focus, Erickson uncovers the hidden policy choices that have until now been missing from popular and legal narratives of inequality. In her account, inequality emerges not only from individual racism and white communities' resistance to desegregation, but as the result of long-standing linkages between schooling, property markets, labor markets, and the pursuit of economic growth. By making visible the full scope of the forces invested in and reinforcing inequality, Erickson reveals the complex history of, and broad culpability for, ongoing struggles in our schools.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Metropolitan Visions of Segregation and Growth

Chapter Two: Desegregation from Tokenism to Moderation

Chapter Three: The Curricular Organization of Segregated Schooling

Chapter Four: The Spatial Organization of Schooling and Urban Renewal

Chapter Five: The Road to Busing

Chapter Six: Busing Resisted and Transformed

Chapter Seven: Busing Lived and Imagined

Chapter Eight: Busing Renegotiated

Chapter Nine: The Long Road to the End of Desegregation

Conclusion

Oral History and Interview Participants

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226025391

022602539X

OCLC:

945577510