Title: Death of a suburban dream : race and schools in Compton, California /
Authors: Straus, Emily E.,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Public schools California Compton History.; African Americans Education California Compton History.; Hispanic Americans Education California Compton History.; Education California Compton History.; Compton (Calif.) Race relations.; Compton (Calif.) Social conditions.; Compton (Calif.) Economic conditions.
Abstract: "Compton is a remarkable American story. A suburb that started white and modest, it convulsed its way toward racial diversity and now represents a new norm of American suburban life--fiscally strained, majority minority, struggling for survival. In this extraordinary journey through Compton's history, Emily E. Straus interweaves the structural and the local, showing how Compton and its schools fell victim to a vicious cycle of debt and despair. Anyone who cares about why our public schools are faltering should pay attention to this story."--Becky Nicolaides, University of California, Los Angeles.