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Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere.While big city districts once were widely seen as superior and attracted families seeking the best educational opportunities for their children, suburban school systems grew rapidly in the post-World War II era as middle class and more affluent families moved to those communities. As Rury relates, at the same time, economically dislocated African Americans migrated from the South to center-city neighborhoods, testing the capacity of urban institutions. As demographic trends drove this urban-suburban divide, a suburban ethos of localism contributed to the socio-economic exclusion that became a hallmark of outlying school systems. School districts located wholly or partly within the municipal boundaries of Kansas City, Missouri offer revealing cases for understanding these national patterns.As Rury demonstrates, struggles to achieve greater educational equity and desegregation contributed to so-called white flight and what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed a crisis of urban education in 1965. Despite often valiant efforts to serve inner city children and bolster urban school districts, the result of this exodus, Rury cogently argues, was the creation of a new metropolitan educational hierarchy—a mirror image of the urban-centric model that prevailed before World War II. The stubborn perception that suburban schools are superior, reflective of test scores and budgets, has persisted into the 21st century and instantiates today's metropolitan landscape of social, economic, and educational inequality.

Educational equalization --- Racism in education --- Discrimination in education --- Suburban schools --- History. --- opportunity hoarding, racial segregation, Kansas City, localism, metropolitan development. --- Kansas --- Missouri

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"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

Coming of age. --- Race discrimination --- Poor teenagers --- African American teenagers --- History --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Washington (D.C.) --- History, Local. --- Race relations --- 1919 race riots. --- African American kids. --- African American youth. --- African American. --- American Youth Council. --- Black Washington D.C. --- Black Washington, D.C. --- Black childhood. --- Black girlhood. --- Black girls. --- Black interiority. --- Black young people. --- Black youth. --- Chicago School. --- Childhood. --- Clarks Court Alley. --- Culture of poverty. --- DC civil rights. --- DC racial segregation. --- Don't buy where you can't work. --- E. Franklin Frazier. --- Howard University. --- Interiority. --- Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. --- Myron Ross Jr. --- Negro Youth at the Crossways. --- New Negro Alliance. --- New Negro. --- Race and geography. --- Racial segregation Washington D.C. --- Racial segregation. --- Southwest Community Center. --- Southwest Settlement House. --- Southwest Washington D.C. --- Susie Morgan. --- The Society Gents Club. --- Union Station Fountain. --- Union Street Sports. --- Washington, D.C. --- William Henry Jones. --- Willow Tree Playground. --- Wish Images. --- Youth activism. --- Youth interiority. --- Youth subjectivity.

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This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's history-school desegregation. Many have attempted to define desegregation, which peaked in the late 1970's, as either a success or a failure; surprisingly few have examined the experiences of the students who lived though it. Featuring the voices of blacks, whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 from racially diverse schools, Both Sides Now offers a powerful firsthand account of how desegregation affected students-during high school and later in life. Their stories, set in a rich social and historical context, underscore the manifold benefits of school desegregation while providing an essential perspective on the current backlash against it.

School integration --- Minority high school students --- 20th century american education. --- 20th century american history. --- american culture. --- american education system. --- american history. --- american politics. --- bonds. --- education. --- friendships. --- government and governing. --- high school students. --- historical. --- politics. --- race in america. --- racial segregation. --- racially diverse schools. --- school desegregation. --- school setting. --- segregation. --- separate but equal. --- students and schools. --- students and teachers. --- united states of america.

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""In Pursuit of Knowledge" explores Black women and educational activism in Antebellum America"--.

African Americans --- African American women political activists --- African American women educators --- Social conditions --- Education --- History --- Universidad Sergio Arboleda --- United States. --- United States --- Race relations --- African American women. --- African American. --- Benjamin Roberts Sr. --- Boston. --- Christian domesticity. --- Christian love. --- Clinton. --- Eunice Ross. --- Hiram Kellogg. --- Joanna Turpin Howard. --- Massachusetts. --- Nantucket. --- New York. --- Northeast. --- Philadelphia. --- Prudence Crandall. --- Rhode Island. --- Salem. --- Sarah Harris. --- Sarah Mapps Douglass. --- Sarah Parker Remond. --- Susan Paul. --- activists. --- caste. --- character education. --- citizenship. --- desegregation. --- educational reform. --- equal rights. --- equal school rights. --- female seminary. --- girlhood. --- high schools. --- pedagogy. --- protest. --- public education. --- purposeful womanhood. --- racial equality. --- racial integration. --- racial segregation. --- racism. --- school desegregation. --- social reform. --- teachers. --- teaching seminary.

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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.

East Indians --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Durban (South Africa) --- Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) --- Chatsworth, South Africa --- Chatsworth Indian Township (Durban, South Africa) --- Durban, Natal --- eThekwini (South Africa) --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africans. --- Asiatic question. --- Bollywood films. --- Chatsworth. --- Durban. --- Hinduism. --- Indian life. --- Indian middle class. --- Indian township. --- Indian townships. --- Indian. --- Indians. --- Jacob Zuma. --- Muslims. --- Natal. --- Pentecostal Christianity. --- South Africa. --- South African Indians. --- South Africans. --- ambition. --- apartheid regulation. --- apartheid. --- autonomy. --- charou. --- church communities. --- colonialism. --- coolie. --- cultural economy. --- cultural intimacy. --- cultural mobility. --- culturally alien people. --- cynicism. --- diasporic imagination. --- disengagement. --- ethnoracial definition. --- kombi taxi. --- majoritarianism. --- minorities. --- neo-Hindu movements. --- non-African communities. --- policy makers. --- politics. --- postapartheid city. --- postapartheid freedom. --- postapartheid society. --- postapartheid. --- private taxi industry. --- public culture. --- race lines. --- racial practices. --- racial segregation. --- racialized identities. --- racism. --- religious identity. --- religious purification. --- representative politics. --- roots tourism. --- social activists. --- social mobility. --- spiritual purification. --- township politics. --- traditional conservatism. --- urban landscape. --- urban music. --- working-class Indians. --- youth culture.