A01=Jerome E. Morris
Author_Jerome E. Morris
Category=JBSL1
Category=JNF
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780807750155
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Different from numerous anecdotal accounts of urban schools and communities, ""Troubling the Waters"" is based on more than a decade of empirically based ethnographic and sociological research in schools and communities in St. Louis (which operated the nation's largest voluntary desegregation plan) and Atlanta (a city that abandoned its desegregation plan in the 1970s). As a sociologist and anthropologist of education, Dr. Morris captures the experiences of African American families from a community in St. Louis who chose to send their children to either the neighborhood predominantly Black school, a racially diverse magnet school, or a predominantly White suburban school, and offers a comparative analyses with African American families' from an Atlanta community whose children attended the neighborhood school. Grounded in the political economy of urban schooling, this book counters the views by neoconservatives that racism no longer exists, while simultaneously offering a poignant analysis of the desegregation-only paradigm towards achieving Brown's promises.
Jerome E. Morris is an associate professor in the College of Education, and director of the Race, Class, Place and Outcomes Research Group in the Institute for Behavioral Research at The University of Georgia.
