Crossing Segregated Boundaries : Remembering Chicago School Desegregation / Dionne Danns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danns, Dionne, Author.

Series:

New Directions in the History of Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children--Education--Illinois--Chicago--History.

African American children.

High school graduates--Illinois--Chicago.

High school graduates.

Public schools--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Public schools.

School integration--Illinois--Chicago--History.

School integration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.) : 8 b-w images, 7 tables

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Scholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago’s housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city’s school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy

2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences

3 “The World Is Bigger Than Just My Local Community”:

4 “I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not”:

5 “We Were from All Over Town”:

6 “We All Got Along”:

7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits

Conclusion:

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

1-9788-1006-7

OCLC:

1196171770