Overview
- Explores the history of race relations in Missouri in the context of school segregation policies
- Provides a nuanced look at the role that the courts played in the creation of effective school desegregation policy in St. Louis
- Features interviews with key witness to St. Louis school desegregation, including Susan Uchitelle, an early architect of the school desegration program in St. Louis
- Draws comparisons to school desegregation programs in other cities like Chicago, Boston, and Little Rock
Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation, Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice, probing the ways that “soft racism”—a term the author uses to describe the non-violent, yet equally harmful, types of protests that opponents of desegregation utilized—has permeated St. Louis since the days of Brown v. Board of Education. The chapters feature the voices of those who were central to the desegregation fight in St. Louis, showing how the devastating effects of school segregation and soft racism linger today.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hope C. Rias is Assistant Professor of Education at Bridgewater College, USA. Her research and teaching interests include the development of anti-racist curricula and training pre-service teachers to use culturally relevant pedagogy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: St. Louis School Desegregation
Book Subtitle: Patterns of Progress and Peril
Authors: Hope C. Rias
Series Title: Historical Studies in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04248-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04247-9Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04248-6Published: 31 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7173
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 170
Topics: History of Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Racism