Boom for whom? : education, desegregation, and development in Charlotte /

Boom for whom? : education, desegregation, and development in Charlotte /

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Author / Creator:Smith, Stephen Samuel, 1942-
Imprint:Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Busing for school integration -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- History.
Education, Urban -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- Charlotte.
School improvement programs -- North Carolina -- Charlotte.
Busing for school integration.
Economic history.
Education, Urban -- Political aspects.
Politics and government
School improvement programs.
Charlotte (N.C.) -- Politics and government.
Charlotte (N.C.) -- Economic conditions.
North Carolina -- Charlotte.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140241
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ISBN:1423739353
9781423739357
0791459853
9780791459850
0791459861
9780791459867
9780791485583
0791485587
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-313) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"Bringing a new perspective to Charlotte's landmark school desegregation efforts, Stephen Samuel Smith provides a history of the nationally-praised mandatory busing plan and the court battle that led to its ultimate demise. Although both black and white children benefited from busing, its most ongoing consequences were not educational, but the political and economic ones that served the interests of Charlotte's business elite and facilitated the city's economic boom. Drawing on urban regime theory, Smith shows how busing enhanced civic capacity and was part of a political alliance between Charlotte's business elite and black political leaders. This account of Charlotte's history has national implications for desegregation, urban education, efforts to build civic capacity, and the political involvement of the urban poor."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Smith, Stephen Samuel, 1942- Boom for whom?. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2004 0791459853 0791459861

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