Both sides now : the story of school desegregation's graduates /
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 346 p.) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283828 |
Other authors / contributors: | Wells, Amy Stuart, 1961- |
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ISBN: | 9780520942486 0520942485 9780520256774 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520256778 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520256781 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520256786 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1282360752 9781282360754 9786612360756 6612360755 |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. [ii]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-337) and index. English. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
Summary: | This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's history--school desegregation. Many have attempted to define desegregation, which peaked in the late 1970s, as either a success or a failure; surprisingly few have examined the experiences of the students who lived though it. Featuring the voices of blacks, whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 from racially diverse schools, Both Sides Now offers a powerful firsthand account of how desegregation affected students--during high school and later in life. Their stories, set in a rich. |
Other form: | Print version: Both sides now Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009. 9780520256774 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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