Creating the Suburban School Advantage : Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis /
"This book describes how an ethos of localism and racial exclusion created a perceived and real advantage for suburban school districts in the postwar era, focusing on developments in metropolitan Kansas City"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : educating the divided metropolis
- Suburban and urban schools : two sides of a national metropolitan coin
- Uniting and dividing a heartland metropolis : growth and inequity in postwar Kansas City
- Fall from grace : the transformation of an urban school system
- Racialized advantage : the Missouri suburban school districts
- Conflict in suburbia : localism, race and education in Johnson County, Kansas
- Epilogue : an enduring legacy of inequality.