Students of the Dream

Resegregation in a Southern City

Ruth Carbonette Yow

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$42.00 • £33.95 • €38.00

ISBN 9780674971905

Publication Date: 11/27/2017

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272 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 tables

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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

Awards & Accolades

2017 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University

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