The Politics of School Integration
Comparative Case Studies
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 May 2010
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780202363653
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English 0
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This book discusses desegregation as a community decision, focusing on case studies from the 1960s
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This book discusses desegregation as a community decision, focusing on case studies from the 1960s. Crain uses comparative techniques based on fifteen northern and southern cities. The author seeks a "total" explanation for the decision to desegregate by determining its proximate causes and locating the roots of the decision in the economic, social, and political structure of the community. This work represents the first attempt to conduct a genuinely scientific analysis of the political process by which school systems were desegregated in this period.
Robert L. Crain documents the way in which eight non-southern, big-city school systems met community demands to reduce segregation. Reactions varied from immediate compliance to months and years of stubborn resistance, some cities maintaining good relations with civil rights leaders and others becoming battlegrounds. Differences in these reactions are explained and focus is brought to desegregation in the South New Orleans in particular. The situation there is contrasted with six peacefully desegregated southern cities as well as the attitude of its powerful economic elite. The concluding part of the book is a general consideration of the civil rights movement in the cities studied, and the author considers the implications of his findings, both for the future of school desegregation and for studies of community politics.
Employing comparative techniques and concentrating upon the outputs of political systems, this is a highly innovative contribution to the study of community power structures and their relationship to educational systems. It remains an effective supplement to courses in sociology, political science, and education, as well as an important source of data for everyone concerned with the history of efforts for national integration.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of IllustrationsPart I: Eight Northern CitiesPart II: An Analysis of School Policy-MakingPart III: Desegregation in New OrleansPart IV: The Community and the Civil Rights MovementPart V: ConclusionAppendicesReferencesIndex
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