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After "Brown"

Charles T. Clotfelter

2004216 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Princeton University Press · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780691119113
  • 2006Princeton University Press · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780691126371

"The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect - contact between students of different racial groups - has changed over the fifty years since the decision." "Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed enrollment data covering the first decade after Brown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Racismmoderateunreviewed
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