Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform / Derrick Bell.

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Main Author: Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Segregation in education > Law and legislation > United States > History.
School integration > United States > History.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:230 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Plessy's long shadow
  • Brown's half light
  • Brown reconceived : an alternative scenario
  • The racial-sacrifice covenants
  • The interest-convergance covenants
  • Brown as an anticommunist decision
  • The role of fortuity in racial policy-making
  • Racism's economic foundation
  • School litigation in the nineteenth century
  • The school desegregation era
  • The end of the Brown era
  • Brown as landmark : an assessment
  • Affirmative Action and racial fortuity in action
  • Searching for effective schools in the post-Brown era
  • Moving beyond racial fortuity.