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The other Boston busing story : what's won and lost across the boundary line /

"METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, has for 34 years bused black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. Sixty-five METCO graduates vividly recall their own stories in this revealing book. Susan E. Eaton...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eaton, Susan E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2020]
Edición:Updated new edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Other Boston Busing Story
  • 2. Why They Went
  • 3. What Remains in Memory
  • 4. The Gains: What Black Adults Say They Gained from Attending White Suburban Schools and How They Used What They Got
  • 5. The Resolutions: The Costs and Confusion of Suburban Schooling and Making Up for What Was Lost
  • 6. What About Now? Balancing the Gains, the Losses, and the Realities of American Society
  • 7. City Life and Suburban Schools: What We Learn from the Grown-up Children Who Crossed Boston's Race Boundary
  • Bibliography
  • Index