White Girl - A Story of School Desegregation

Informationen zum Autor CLARA SILVERSTEIN is an editor and writer for the Boston Herald . She is also a published poet and the program director for the Writers' Center at Chautauqua in upstate New York. Klappentext This account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered bussing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment! sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on! tripped! and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other times she was shunned altogether. In the conventional imagery of the civil rights era! someone in Silverstein's situation would be black. She was white! however - one of the few white students in her entire school. Zusammenfassung This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Silverstein's achingly honest story! woven with historical details! confronts us with powerful questions about race and the use of our schools to engineer social change.

Product details

• Authors: Clara Silverstein
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9780820345093
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4509-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research