Students of the dream : resegregation in a Southern city / Ruth Carbonette Yow.

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Documenting the half-century-long drama of integration in Marietta, Georgia, Students of the Dream grapples with the past, present, and future of integrated schooling in America. Once the most desegregated region in the country, the South is now facing rapid resegregation of its schools. The widespr...

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Main Author: Yow, Ruth Carbonette (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Segregation in education > Georgia > Marietta.
School integration > Georgia > Marietta.
Discrimination in education > Georgia > Marietta.
Marietta (Ga.) > Social conditions.
Discrimination in education.
School integration.
Segregation in education.
Social conditions.
Georgia > Marietta.
Physical Description:254 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Blue Devil pride: Marietta football in the long integration era
  • Fifty years of "freedom": school choice and structural inequality in Marietta city schools
  • Some kinds of blue: tracking at Marietta High
  • The new integrators: Latino students
  • Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: integration is not a policy goal; it's a movement.