Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.

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"This book describes how an ethos of localism and racial exclusion created a perceived and real advantage for suburban school districts in the postwar era, focusing on developments in metropolitan Kansas City"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Histories of American education.
Main Author: Rury, John L., 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Histories of American education.
Subjects:
Suburban schools > Missouri > Kansas City Metropolitan Area > History.
Suburban schools > Kansas > Johnson County > History.
Discrimination in education > Missouri > Kansas City Metropolitan Area > History.
Discrimination in education > Kansas > Johnson County > History.
Racism in education > Missouri > Kansas City Metropolitan Area > History.
Racism in education > Kansas > Johnson County > History.
Educational equalization > Missouri > Kansas City Metropolitan Area > History.
Educational equalization > Kansas > Johnson County > History.
Discrimination in education.
Educational equalization.
Racism in education.
Suburban schools.
Kansas > Johnson County.
Missouri > Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : educating the divided metropolis
  • Suburban and urban schools : two sides of a national metropolitan coin
  • Uniting and dividing a heartland metropolis : growth and inequity in postwar Kansas City
  • Fall from grace : the transformation of an urban school system
  • Racialized advantage : the Missouri suburban school districts
  • Conflict in suburbia : localism, race and education in Johnson County, Kansas
  • Epilogue : an enduring legacy of inequality.