Stepping over the color line : African-American students in white suburban schools / Amy Stuart Wells and Robert L. Crain.

Author
Wells, Amy Stuart, 1961- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [1997], ©1997.
Description
xi, 380 pages : maps ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    Stepping over the Color Line intertwines data on student achievement and racial isolation with stories of the people who participated in the St. Louis program. The authors set these individuals within a broad historical and social context and demonstrate how important linkages between the past and present help explain why efforts to overcome racial inequality - in St. Louis and in the larger society - are so difficult.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-372) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Citing the Color Line: White Flight and Urban Ghettos
    • 2. The Color Line and the Court Order
    • 3. Urban Education: The Decline of the St. Louis Public Schools
    • 4. Consumers of Urban Education
    • 5. The Upwardly Mobile: Black Students Who Succeed in the Suburban Schools
    • 6. Suburban Refugees
    • 7. Saving Face in the Suburbs: Local Control and Status Quo
    • 8. Visionary Educators and Their Reforms
    • 9. White Families in Flux: Intergenerational Lessons on School Desegregation.
    ISBN
    0300067607 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    96043906
    OCLC
    36165091
    RCP
    C - S
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