Toward the Resegregation of Southern Schools: African American Suburbanization and Historical Erasure in "Freeman v. Pitts"

Autor/in	Amsterdam, Daniel
Titel	Toward the Resegregation of Southern Schools: African American Suburbanization and Historical Erasure in "Freeman v. Pitts"
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 57 (2017) 4, S.451-479 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
DOI	10.1017/heq.2017.28
Schlagwörter	Court Litigation; School Districts; School Desegregation; School Segregation; Geographic Regions; Racial Segregation; African American Students; Suburban Schools; Racial Discrimination; Educational History; Suburbs; Whites; African Americans; Desegregation Litigation; Politics of Education; Georgia (Atlanta) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; School district; Schulbezirk; Integrative Schule; Rassentrennung; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; School; Schools; Vorort; Vorstadt; Schule; Racial bias; Rassismus; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Einzugsbereich; White; Weißer; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	This article reconstructs the story behind "Freeman v. Pitts" (1992), one of the main US Supreme Court cases that made it easier for school districts to terminate court desegregation orders and that, in turn, helped to propel a widely documented trend: the resegregation of southern schools. The case in part hinged on the question of whether school officials in an Atlanta suburb were responsible for the racial segregation that had developed in the area alongside the rapid settlement of African Americans there in the late twentieth century. Thus, along with shedding new light on how the South transitioned from an era focused on desegregation to one enabling resegregation, the article makes contributions to two areas of increasing scholarly interest: the history of African American suburbanization and the history of suburban school districts. Finally, the article underscores disconcerting patterns in how the Supreme Court utilized history in "Freeman." (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01