Students of the Dream : Resegregation in a Southern City /

Documenting the half-century-long drama of integration in Marietta, Georgia, Students of the Dream grapples with the past, present, and future of integrated schooling in America. Once the most desegregated region in the country, the South is now facing rapid resegregation of its schools. The widespr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yow, Ruth Carbonette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Segregation in education > Georgia > Marietta.
School integration > Georgia > Marietta.
Discrimination in education > Georgia > Marietta.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Discrimination in education
School integration
Segregation in education
Social conditions
Marietta (Ga.) > Social conditions.
Georgia > Marietta
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Blue Devil pride: Marietta football in the long integration era
  • Fifty years of "freedom": school choice and structural inequality in Marietta city schools
  • Some kinds of blue: tracking at Marietta High
  • The new integrators: Latino students
  • Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: integration is not a policy goal; it's a movement.

Similar Items