Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger (eBook)

School Segregation in Rochester, New York

Justin Murphy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
312 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6188-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy argues that Rochester's educational disparities stem from historical and ongoing racial segregation. Education reform alone cannot resolve racial inequity; cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.

Through interviews and documents, Murphy shows how discriminatory policies and personal prejudice shaped the region's segregated educational system. Alongside this troubling history, he highlights the fight for integration, from Frederick Douglass's advocacy in the 1850s to student activism inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the 2010s.

Murphy illustrates how numerous failed efforts to uphold the promise of Brown v. Board of Education underline that desegregation and integration remain the best opportunities to improve educational and economic outcomes for children of color. In Rochester, that opportunity has been lost, leading to persistently poor academic results.

Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger offers both historical and contemporary analysis, showing how northern cities must confront their past to build a more equitable future.

Autor

Justin Murphy is a journalist and the research and communications coordinator at Our Local History.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Question of Questions
1. The African School
2. Nowhere Else to Go
3. Willing Combatants
4. Six Rugged Years, All Uphill
5. From Charlotte to Milliken
6. Considering the Metropolis
7. The Urban-Suburban Program
8. The Age of Accountability
Conclusion: Three Steps toward Change

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 5 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: advocacy for integration • antiracism • Black Lives Matter movement • Brown v. Board of Education • burden of history • civil rights in rochester ny • community activism • courageous fight • discriminatory public policy • Economic opportunity • Educational Disparities • Educational Reform • Education Policy • frederick douglas rochester ny • Frederick Douglass • Future of Education • historical prejudice • personal prejudice • present-day relevance • racial equality in education • racial inequity • Racial segregation • rochester integration lawsuit • rochester integration lawsuit, racial equality in education, civil rights in rochester ny, frederick douglas rochester, antiracis, racial segregation • rochester integration lawsuit, racial equality in education, civil rights in rochester ny, frederick douglas rochester ny, rochester redlining, antiracism • rochester integration lawsuit, racial equality in education, civil rights in rochester ny, frederick douglas rochester ny, rochester redlining, busing in rochester • rochester redlining • school inequality • segregation dismantling • student coalition • Systemic Racism • twentieth-century challenges
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6188-9 / 1501761889
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6188-1 / 9781501761881