The Battle Nearer to Home : The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City / Christopher Bonastia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonastia, Christopher, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Segregation in education--New York (State)--New York--History.

Segregation in education.

School integration--New York (State)--New York--History.

School integration.

Education and state--New York (State)--New York--History.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems. Tracing the quest for integration in education from the mid-1950s to the present, The Battle Nearer to Home follows the tireless efforts by educational activists to dismantle the deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities that segregation reinforces. The fight for integration has shifted significantly over time, not least in terms of the way "integration" is conceived, from transfers of students and redrawing school attendance zones, to more recent demands of community control of segregated schools. In all cases, the Board eventually pulled the plug in the face of resistance from more powerful stakeholders, and, starting in the 1970s, integration receded as a possible solution to educational inequality. In excavating the history of New York City school integration politics, in the halls of power and on the ground, Christopher Bonastia unearths the enduring white resistance to integration and the severe costs paid by Black and Latino students. This last decade has seen activists renew the fight for integration, but the war is still far from won.

Contents:

Diverse but segregated

The case for school integration

"Good neighborhoods do not just happen"

Inflamed

The roots of community control

Ocean Hill-Brownsville's Afrocentric, multicultural vision

Race and education after community control

The renewed demand for integration

Learning from the past and moving forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5036-3198-2

OCLC:

1269425167