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Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries.
Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction
1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy
2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences
3 "The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community": Choosing and Traveling to High Schools
4 "I Don't Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not": Academic Experiences and Curriculum
5 "We Were from All Over Town": Interracial Experiences in and out of School
6 "We All Got Along": Difficulties and Difference
7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits
Conclusion: Continuing Inequality
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
DIONNE DANNS is a professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Desegregating Chicago's Public Schools: Policy Implementation, Politics, and Protest, 1965-1985 and Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971, and the co-editor of Using Past as Prologue: Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History.
Summary
Few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools.
