Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems. Tracing the quest for integration in education from the mid-1950s to the present, The Battle Nearer to Home follows the tireless efforts by educational activists to dismantle the deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities that segregation reinforces. The fight for integration has shifted significantly over time, not least in terms of the way "integration" is conceived, from transfers of students and redrawing school attendance zones, to more recent demands of community control of segregated schools. In all cases, the Board eventually pulled the plug in the face of resistance from more powerful stakeholders, and, starting in the 1970s, integration receded as a possible solution to educational inequality. In excavating the history of New York City school integration politics, in the halls of power and on the ground, Christopher Bonastia unearths the enduring white resistance to integration and the severe costs paid by Black and Latino students. This last decade has seen activists renew the fight for integration, but the war is still far from won.
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The Battle Nearer to Home
The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City
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The Battle Nearer to Home
The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City
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Publisher
Stanford University PressYear
2022Print ISBN
9781503631441
9781503629431
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1eBook ISBN
9781503631984
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Prominent Individuals
- Map of Manhattan and the Bronx
- Map of Brooklyn and Queens
- 1. Diverse but Segregated
- 2. The Case for School Integration
- 3. “Good Neighborhoods Do Not Just Happen”
- 4. Inflamed
- 5. The Roots of Community Control
- 6. Ocean Hill–Brownsville’s Afrocentric, Multicultural Vision
- 7. Race and Education after Community Control
- 8. The Renewed Demand for Integration
- 9. Learning from the Past and Moving Forward
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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