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Author Danns, Dionne, author.

Title Crossing Segregated Boundaries Remembering Chicago School Desegregation / Dionne Danns.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000.
2020.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (pages cm).
text file
Series New directions in the history of education
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Segregation, politics, and school desegregation policy -- Busing, boycotts, and elementary school experiences -- "The world is bigger than just ny local community" : choosing and traveling to high schools -- "I don't know if it was a racial thing or not" : academic experiences and curriculum -- "We were from all over town" : interracial experiences in and out of school -- "We all got along" : difficulties and differences -- After high school and desegregation benefits -- Conclusion : continuing inequality.
Summary "Scholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago's housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city's school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject High school graduates -- Illinois -- Chicago.
High school graduates.
Illinois -- Chicago.
African American children -- Education -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African American children -- Education.
History.
Public schools -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
School integration -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Public schools.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
School integration.
EDUCATION / General.
Ethnic relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
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