'desegregation' of English schools (eBook)

Bussing, race and urban space, 1960s-80s

Olivier Esteves (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2487-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnerable to racial bullying.

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Dispersal, or 'bussing', was introduced in England in the early-1960s after white parents expressed concerns that the sudden influx of non-Anglophone South Asian children was holding back their own children's education. It consisted in sending busloads of mostly Asian children to predominantly white suburban schools in an effort to 'spread the burden' and to promote linguistic and cultural integration. Although seemingly well-intentioned, dispersal proved a failure: it was based on racial identity rather than linguistic deficiency and ultimately led to an increase in segregation, as bussed pupils were daily confronted with racial bullying in dispersal schools. This is the first ever book on English bussing, based on an in-depth study of local and national archives, alongside interviews with formerly-bussed pupils decades later.

Autor

Olivier Esteves is Professor of British Studies at the University of Lille

Inhalt

Introduction
1 “To allay people’s fears on numbers”: the introduction of dispersal in Southall
2 Improvisation in high places? Setting the national framework for bussing
3 “Before it gets out of hand”: the introduction of dispersal in Bradford
4 Reluctant cities: how London and Birmingham said no to dispersal
5 Dispersing in diverse places: how the other L.E.A.s fared
6 Taking the bullying by the horns: the emergence of resistance against bussing
7 Babylon by bus: the quotidian experience of being bussed
Conclusion
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2019
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: asians • assimilation • Bullying • Bussing • Dispersal • ethnic clustering • ‘Ghetto’ schools • Immigrant children • Immigrant quotas • Immigration • immigration quotas • Integration • Public Policy • Racism • Schooling
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2487-4 / 1526124874
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2487-6 / 9781526124876