Deirdre Mayer Dougherty

Race and Place

School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland

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Produktbeschreibung

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1945 through 1973.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978828001
• ISBN-10: 1978828004
• Artikelnr.: 72027049

Autorenporträt

DEIRDRE MAYER DOUGHERTY is a visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Knox College. She is the coauthor of The Fertile Ground of School Integration: A Counter-Story to Segregated and Unequal Education (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Race, Place, and Truth
Part I: Spectral Spaces: Schooling Pre-Brown 1632-1950
1 “The Party of Memory and the Party of Hope”: Contradiction in Black and
White
2: Public Schooling in Maryland before Brown
Part II: A Policy of Nostalgia (1954-1968)
3: Thomas Pullen and Gradual Adjustment
4: William Schmidt and The Freedom of Unequal Choices, 1960-1968
Part III: Mythologizing the Neighborhood
5: White Suburbanization and School Construction in Belair at Bowie,
1920-1965
6: Black Suburbanization: School Closure and Urban Renewal in Fairmount
Heights, 1920-1968
Part IV: Moralizing Space and Race
7: The Moral Geography of Busing, 1972
8: Discipline, Danger, and Desegregation, 1973
Conclusion: “…cleaner, whiter, richer, safer than where you are”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index