White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation 0820345881, 9780820345888

One woman’s memoir of coming of age while being bused to largely black schools after a Virginia legal battle forced inte

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English Pages 168 Year 2013

White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation
0820345881, 9780820345888

Written in three distinct voices-child, teen and adult-Jane Devin takes readers on an intimate, imaginative and often ha

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The volume presents the results collated in the frames of the fact finding project led by the editor. The analysis inclu

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The life story of Liu Hulan, a young woman spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Par

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Hit military romance of the year written by an Army Wife herself! Received well by Army personnel for its true depiction

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Scholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and fe

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In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson’s Making

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Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this

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Examines the results of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on desegregation on the five school districts that partic

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The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor and race Iceberg

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