African American Dilemma - A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North

Presenting a revealing historical perspective on today's charged schooling choices, An African American Dilemma illuminates the tensions between school integration and separation that have shaped the long history of black struggles for equal education and civil rights in the North.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter One: Caste Abolished: Integration for Freedom, 1840-1900


• Chapter Two: The Education that Is Their Due: Separation for Racial Uplift, 1900-1940


• Chapter Three: A Powerful Weapon: Integration for Equality, 1940-1965


• Chapter Four: Conflict in the Community: Separation for Black Power, 1966-1974


• Chapter Five: An Armageddon of Righteousness: Integration for Justice, 1974-present


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Zoë Burkholder is Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. She is the author of Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954 (OUP, 2011) and the co-author of Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education.

Summary

Presenting a revealing historical perspective on today's charged schooling choices, An African American Dilemma illuminates the tensions between school integration and separation that have shaped the long history of black struggles for equal education and civil rights in the North.

Additional text

Burkholder's text does crucial work in making clear that school integration was not a universal goal in the long Black Freedom Struggle in the North. Black advocates of separate schools were both responding to the reality of White hostility in the United States and building cultural and social landmarks in the Black community. The book is also a cautionary tale about the elusive nature of racial equity in American education.

Product details

• Authors: Zoë Burkholder, Zoe (Professor of Educational Foundati Burkholder
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2021
• EAN: 9780190605131
• ISBN: 978-0-19-060513-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational strategies & policy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Educational strategies and policy