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A troubled dream : the promise and failure of school desegregation in Louisiana
- Title
- A troubled dream : the promise and failure of school desegregation in Louisiana / Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas.
- Author
- Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952-
- Publication
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LC214.22.L8 B35 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Caldas, Stephen J., 1957-
- Description
- xiv, 268 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- It appears that coercive desegregation efforts may have actually caused school systems to re-segregate, by driving out large numbers of middle-class white students. Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical information, the authors examine the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study to show how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the United States. Strong supporters of the dream of integration, they show that the practical difficulty with desegregation is that academic environments are created by all the students in a school from the backgrounds that all the students bring with them.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.
- Contents
- Louisiana's schools prior to desegregation: the roots of a racially divided society -- The struggle to desegregate the schools: overcoming injustice through the schools -- New Orleans: the beginning and the end of a process -- East Baton Rouge: school desegregation and unintended consequences -- School desegregation and white flight in Lafayette parish -- Louisiana and the dilemma of desegregation -- The academic consequences of desegregation and resegregation: revisiting the harm and benefit thesis.
- ISBN
- 0826513883
- 9780826513885
- 0826513891
- 9780826513892
- LCCN
- 2001006528
- OCLC
- ocm48249290
- 48249290
- SCSB-8911159
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library