A troubled dream the promise and failure of school desegregation in Louisiana / Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas.

Author/creator Bankston, Carl L., 1952-
Other author Caldas, Stephen J., 1957-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press,
Description1 online resource (xiv, 268 p.)
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Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- The Problem of Writing about Race 1 --1 Louisiana's Schools Prior to Desegregation: -- The Roots of a Racially Divided Society 21 --2 The Struggle to Desegregate the Schools: -- Overcoming Injustice through the Schools 37 --3 New Orleans: The Beginning -- and the End of a Process 54 --4 East Baton Rouge: School Desegregation -- and Unintended Consequences 83 --5 School Desegregation and White Flight in Lafayette Parish 106 --6 Louisiana and the Dilemma of Desegregation 140 --7 The Academic Consequences of Desegregation and Resegregation: Revisiting the Harm and Benefit Thesis 186 --8 Recommendations 205 --Appendix A: Single-Parent Families and Educational Environment 223 --Appendix B: Multilevel Statistical Examination of the Harm and Benefit Thesis 231.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: A troubled dream Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. 0826513883 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021697162
ISBN9780826591487 ebook

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