St. Louis School Desegregation Patterns of Progress and Peril /

• Main Author: Rias, Hope C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Historical Studies in Education
• Subjects: Education-History.; Educational sociology.; Racism in the social sciences.; History of Education.; Sociology of Education.; Sociology of Racism.

This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation, Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice, probing the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why Desegregation Still Matters
• 2. Soft Racism? How Complicating Interpretations of Racism Impact School History
• 3. Historic Patterns of Soft Racism, Symbolic Violence, and Dignified Disdain for Blacks
• 4. With Justice and Equality for Some...- 5. It Takes a Village
• 6. Protecting White Innocents and White Innocence
• 7. History Repeats Itself: The Perils of Normandy High School.