Making the Unequal Metropolis
School Desegregation and Its Limits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry Gershenhorn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 267-268 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jax132 |
| OpenAlex | W2711360228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In this important study of the desegregation of schools in metropolitan Nashville–Davidson County, Tennessee, Ansley T. Erickson argues that white education and the actions of government officials at the local, state, and national levels perpetuated racial inequality from 1945 to 1998 because they prioritized “the felt needs and interests of local white students, families, and neighborhoods,” to the detriment of black students, families, and neighborhoods (p. 304). African Americans bore the burden of desegregation in many ways, including the closing of many black schools and the disproportionate amount of time that black students spent on buses compared to their white counterparts. Nonetheless, desegregated schools provided black and white students with a superior social education, improved high school graduation rates, and higher scores on academic achievement tests. Erickson supports her thesis with an impressive array of evidence, gleaned from sixty-one oral interviews with students and teachers, court records, manuscript collections, government records, newspaper articles, and Geographic Information System (GIS) and census research
Census · Desegregation · Geography · Government (linguistics · Graduation (instrument · Inequality · Local government · Metropolitan area · Newspaper · Political science · Race (biology · Racial composition · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes
Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services
Cat-and-Mouse Games
Desegregation is Not a Black and White Issue
Making the socio-historical visible
Policy Dialogue
Schooling as a White Good
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |