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The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97 »

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Authors: Richard A. Pride
ISBN-13: 9780252027666, ISBN-10: 0252027663
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Richard A. Pride

Richard A. Pride, professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University, is the coauthor of The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee.

Book Synopsis

Exploring who benefits and who pays when different narratives of race compete for acceptance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Pt. 1Protest and Resistance
1Breaking the Color Line25
2Freedom of Choice, 1963-6847
3Assimilation72
4Busing100
Pt. 2Accommodation
5Power Transitions123
6Community Schools149
7Blacks on the Board167
8Grandstanding186
Pt. 3Inequality and Cultural Change
9Narrative Closure219
10Redefining the Problem of Racial Inequality230
Conclusion257
Notes273
Index299

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