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Book SynopsisThe United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would transform American public schools. This book provides an assessment of how Brown's most visible effect, contact between students of different racial groups, has changed over the fifty years since the decision.
Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2005 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association "[A] richly instructive 'arithmetical history' of how educational integration waxed and then waned in the years after Brown."--David J. Garrow, The Nation "This is an important book, with thorough analysis supported by both historical and current data. Clotfelter's angle of vision measuring the lack of interracial contact, is both insightful and informative."--Library Journal "After Brown is an unusually comprehensive and well-documented analysis of trends in the last five decades in the levels of segregation in American education... It is the most current, most comprehensive reference work available today."--John R. Logan, American Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Preface xv Introduction 1 Chapter One Walls Came Tumbling Down 13 Chapter Two The Legacies of Brown and Milliken 44 Chapter Three Residential Segregation and "White Flight" 75 Chapter Four The Private School Option 100 Chapter Five Inside Schools: Classrooms and School Activities 126 Chapter Six Higher Learning and the Color Line 148 Chapter Seven So What? 178 Methodological Appendix 201 Notes 217 References 245 Index 263
