The pursuit of racial and ethnic equality in American public schools
Subtitle: Mendez, Brown, and beyond
By: edited by Kristi L. Bowman
Contributors: Ryan, James E. (James Edward), writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: East Lansing, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781611861808; 9781609174675; 9781628952391; 9781628962390
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: School integration; Segregation in education; Law and legislation; Discrimination in education; History
Description: A collection of works on racial and ethnic discrimination in American public schools. Discusses several cases relating to that topic: Méndez (1946); Brown (1954); The Civil Rights Act (1964); Milliken (1974); Jenkins (1995) Parents Involved and Meredith (2007).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Standing on the shoulders of Mendez v. Westminster / Frederick P. Aguirre; title: Our children are Americans : Mendez v. Westminster and Mexican American rights / Philippa Strum; title: Pursuing equity at the intersection of school desegregation, English-language instruction, and immigration / Kristi L. Bowman; title: The rest of the story of Brown v. Board of Education / Cheryl Brown Henderson; title: Brown v. Board of Education : an axe in the frozen sea of racism / Jack Greenberg; title: Integrating an all-white high school in the segregated south : memories, challenges, and lessons learned / Patricia A. Edwards; title: Brown's 60th anniversary : a story of judicial isolation / Wendy Parker; title: Massive resistance before the Civil Rights Act : the integration of Little Rock Central High School / John J. (Jack) Feeheley; title: Equity in education : the present and future of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Allison R. Brown; title: Defining discrimination : intent, impact and the future of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Derek W. Black; title: Milliken v. Bradley : a judicial betrayal of Brown / Nathaniel R. Jones; title: School desegregation in metropolitan Detroit : struggling for justice in a divided and troubled community / Joyce A. Baugh; title: Milliken and the prospects for racial diversity in U.S. public schools / Charles T. Clotfelter; title: Missouri v. Jenkins : a remedy without objective limitation / John R. Munich; title: Missed opportunites, enduring legacies : school segregation and desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri / Kevin Fox Gotham; title: The legal legacy of Missouri v. Jenkins / Kristi L. Bowman; title: Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education : a community committed to diverse schools / Byron E. Leet; title: Making schools more separate and unequal : Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 / Erwin Chemerinsky; title: Contesting white accumulation in Seattle : toward a materialist antiracist analysis of school desegregation / Michael J. Dumas; title: After unitary status : examining voluntary integration strategies for Southern school districts / Danielle R. Holley-Walker; title: Voluntary integration and school board leadership in Louisville, Kentucky / Erica Frankenberg and Sarah Diem; title: How adequacy litigation fails to fulfill the promis of Brown (but how it can get us closer) / David Hinojosa and Karolina Walters; title: Teacher evaluation and collective bargaining : the new frontier of civil rights / Benjamin M. Superfine and Jessica J. Gottlieb; title: Education and civil rights : lessons of six decades and challenges of a changed society / Gary Orfield.