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Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform
Title:
Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform
Author:
Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
230 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Plessy's long shadow -- Brown's half light -- Brown reconceived : an alternative scenario -- The racial sacrifice covenants -- The interest-convergance covenants -- Brown as an anti-communist decision -- Racism's economic foundation -- School litigation in the nineteenth century -- The school desegregation era -- The end of Brown era -- Brown as landmark : an assessment -- Affirmative Action and racial fortuities in action -- Searching for effective schools in the post-Brown era -- Moving beyond racial fortuity.
Reading Level:
1560 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780195172720
Format :
Book