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Students of the Dream

Resegregation in a Southern City

  • Introduction
  • 1. Blue Devil Pride: Marietta Football in the Long Integration Era
  • 2. Fifty Years of “Freedom”: School Choice and Structural Inequality in Marietta City Schools
  • 3. Some Kinds of Blue: Tracking at Marietta High
  • 4. The New Integrators: Latino Students
  • Conclusion: Reclaiming Brown: Integration Is Not a Policy Goal—It’s a Movement
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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