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.
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. Organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline, Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.
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"With sophistication, subtlety, and ringing moral clarity, Dougherty explains how the language of community has concealed violence and discrimination against Black Americans. Race and Place will make you rethink the measure and meaning of racial desegregation in Americas suburbs." - Campbell F. Scribner (author of The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy) "Deirdre Mayer Dougherty offers a theoretically innovative, historically sound, and interdisciplinarily rich interrogation of the history of school desegregation in one of the most lauded Black suburbs of the twentieth century. Centering the agency and activism of Black citizens and critical notions of schools and communities as sites of belonging, this account delineates how leaders and residents confronted educational policy and opportunity." - Michelle A. Purdy (author of Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools)
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
Introduction: Race, Place, and Truth 1
Part I Spectral Spaces: Schooling Pre-Brown
(16321950)
1 The Party of Memory and the Party of Hope:
Contradiction in Black and White 21
2 Public Schooling in Maryland
before Brown 28
Part II A Policy of Nostalgia (19541968)
3 Thomas Pullen and Gradual Adjustment 45
4 William Schmidt and the Freedom of Unequal
Choices, 19601968 58
Part III Mythologizing the Neighborhood
5 White Suburbanization and School Construction in Belair
at Bowie, 19201965 71
6 Black Suburbanization: School Closure and Urban Renewal
in Fairmount Heights, 19201968 92
Part IV Moralizing Space and Race
7 The Moral Geography of Busing, 1972 119
8 Discipline, Danger, and Desegregation, 1973 132
Conclusion: . . . cleaner, whiter, richer, safer than where you are 146
Acknowledgments
151
Notes 155
Index 000
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).
