1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453336903321

Autore

Clotfelter Charles T

Titolo

After Brown [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and retreat of school desegregation / / Charles T. Clotfelter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786613291066

1-283-29106-1

1-4008-4133-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

379.2/63/0973

Soggetti

School integration - United States

Segregation in education - United States

Education and state - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Walls Came Tumbling Down -- CHAPTER TWO. The Legacies of Brown and Milliken -- CHAPTER THREE. Residential Segregation and "White Flight" -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Private School Option -- CHAPTER FIVE. Inside Schools: Classrooms and School Activities -- CHAPTER SIX. Higher Learning and the Color Line -- CHAPTER SEVEN. So What? -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact between students of different racial groups--has changed over the fifty years since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed



enrollment data covering the first decade after Brown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment. Two main conclusions emerge. First, interracial contact in American schools and colleges increased markedly over the period, with the most dramatic changes occurring in the previously segregated South. Second, despite this change, four main factors prevented even larger increases: white reluctance to accept racially mixed schools, the multiplicity of options for avoiding such schools, the willingness of local officials to accommodate the wishes of reluctant whites, and the eventual loss of will on the part of those who had been the strongest protagonists in the push for desegregation. Thus decreases in segregation within districts were partially offset by growing disparities between districts and by selected increases in private school enrollment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0045566

Autore

Godement, Roger <1921-2016>

Titolo

1.: Convergence, elementary functions / Roger Godement ; Philip Spain translator

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 2004

Titolo uniforme

Analyse mathématique I

ISBN

978-35-400-5923-3

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 430 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

26-XX - Real functions [MSC 2020]

31-XX - Potential theory [MSC 2020]

42-XX - Harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces [MSC 2020]

28-XX - Measure and integration [MSC 2020]

26A03 - Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line [MSC 2020]

54-XX - General topology [MSC 2020]

30-XX - Functions of a complex variable [MSC 2020]

43-XX - Abstract harmonic analysis [MSC 2020]

41-XX - Approximations and expansions [MSC 2020]

26A06 - One-variable calculus [MSC 2020]

26A15 - Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable [MSC 2020]

26A24 - Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean-value theorems [MSC 2020]



26A42 - Integrals of Riemann, Stieltjes and Lebesgue type [MSC 2020]

26B05 - Continuity and differentiation questions [MSC 2020]

26A12 - Rate of growth of functions, orders of infinity, slowly varying functions [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia