After @quot;Brown@quot;: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
ISBN: 9781400841332
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: School integration -- United States; Segregation in education -- United States; Education and state -- United States;

The subtitle of tells it all. While school desegregation-and thus interracial contact-increased for a few decades after the pivotal Brown decision, "contrary forces restrained the extent of this increase," writes Clotfelter, who teaches public policy, economics and law at Duke University. Those forces include the tendency for whites to avoid racially mixed schools, the private school option, predominantly white "tracking" or extracurricular activities, school officials willing to gerrymander attendance zones and the Supreme Court's 1974 decision to limit the scope of desegregation. Clotfelter draws on a deep range of documents, including private school information, to make his case. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His books include Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education (Princeton).

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