The Boston School Integration Dispute: Social Change and Legal Maneuvers / J. Brian Sheehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheehan, J. Brian, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Analyzes the school integration controversy in Boston during the 1970s in terms of economic and historical forces and the power relationships that shaped it. Also evaluates the role of these forces in creating ethnic and racial divisions and considers the correspondences among economic processes; legal, political, and educational structures; and property relationships.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction

I. A Brief Social and Economic History of Boston

II. Urban Renewal, Educational Reform, and the Integration Controversy

III. The Political Encapsulation of the Boston School Committee and Legal Maneuvers

IV. Modernization of the School System

V. School Committee Resistance and Accommodation to the Court Order

VI. Public Opposition to School Desegregation: Protest in a Boston Neighborhood

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231879095

0231879091

OCLC:

1100457368