ABOUT THIS BOOK

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline. Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

DEIRDRE MAYER DOUGHERTY is an associate professor of educational studies at Knox College. She is the coauthor of Making School Integration Work: Lessons from Morris.

REVIEWS

"Deirdre Mayer Dougherty offers a theoretically innovative, historically sound, and interdisciplinarily rich interrogation of the history of school desegregation in one of the most lauded Black suburbs of the twentieth century. Centering the agency and activism of Black citizens and critical notions of schools and communities as sites of belonging, this account delineates how leaders and residents confronted educational policy and opportunity."— Michelle A. Purdy, author of Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools

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