Stepping over the color line
Subtitle: African-American students in white suburban schools
By: Amy Stuart Wells and Robert L. Crain.
Contributors: Crain, Robert L.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: School integration -- Missouri -- Saint Louis Metropolitan Area -- Case studies; African American students -- Education -- Missouri -- Saint Louis Metropolitan Area -- Case studies; Suburban schools -- Missouri -- Saint Louis Metropolitan Area -- Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-372) and index.