Format:
Book
Title:
Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform / Derrick Bell.
Author:
Bell, Derrick, 1930-2011
Call Number:
344.730798 BELL
Web Site:
Publisher, Date:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:
230 p. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Segregation in education -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
School integration -- United States -- History.
Wellington Webb collection
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 anticommunist decision -- The role of fortuity in racial policy-making -- Racism's economic foundation -- School litigation in the nineteenth century -- The school desegregation era -- The end of the Brown era -- Brown as landmark : an assessment -- Affirmative Action and racial fortuity in action -- Searching for effective schools in the post-Brown era -- Moving beyond racial fortuity.
ISBN:
0195172728 (alk. paper)