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Students of the Dream : Resegregation in a Southern City / Ruth Carbonette Yow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (236 p.) : 11 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674981393
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 379.26309758245 23
LOC classification:
  • LC214.23.M3 .Y69 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Blue Devil Pride: Marietta Football in the Long Integration Era -- 2. Fifty Years of “Freedom”: School Choice and Structural Inequality in Marietta City Schools -- 3. Some Kinds of Blue: Tracking at Marietta High -- 4. The New Integrators: Latino Students -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: Integration Is Not a Policy Goal—It’s a Movement -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary: Marietta High, once a flagship public school northwest of Atlanta, has become a symbol of the resegregation that is sweeping across the American South. Ruth Carbonette Yow argues for a revitalized commitment to integration, but one that challenges many orthodoxies of the civil rights struggle, including colorblindness.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Blue Devil Pride: Marietta Football in the Long Integration Era -- 2. Fifty Years of “Freedom”: School Choice and Structural Inequality in Marietta City Schools -- 3. Some Kinds of Blue: Tracking at Marietta High -- 4. The New Integrators: Latino Students -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: Integration Is Not a Policy Goal—It’s a Movement -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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Marietta High, once a flagship public school northwest of Atlanta, has become a symbol of the resegregation that is sweeping across the American South. Ruth Carbonette Yow argues for a revitalized commitment to integration, but one that challenges many orthodoxies of the civil rights struggle, including colorblindness.

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In English.

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