Effective schools for disaffected students : integration and segregation / / Paul Cooper

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451008203321
• Autore: Cooper Paul <1955, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993
• ISBN: 1-134-92172-1; 1-134-92173-X; 1-282-77756-4; 9786612777561; 0-203-03244-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.93
• Soggetti: Alienation (Social psychology) - Great Britain; Problem children - Education - United States; Mainstreaming in education - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-262) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Introduction; Institutions and disaffection; Individuality, education and approaches to disruption; Introduction; Pupils tell their stories; The residential experience I: School life; The residential experience II: Interpersonal relationships and personal outcomes; Introduction; School effectiveness; Tackling disaffection in the mainstream school: One school's experience; Conclusion: Schools for individuals; Appendix: A note on the research method; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Disaffected pupils respond well in circumstances where they feel secure, where they have a sense of being valued and respected, and where they perceive there to be opportunities for them to succeed. Effective Schools for Disaffected Students offers insights into how these outcomes might be achieved in both mainstream and segregated settings. The investigation is based on the views of pupils who have been excluded from mainstream schools for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The author relates the pupils' experiences of ; the different types of school to research in

Chronicles of a two-front war : civil rights and Vietnam in the African American press / / Lawrence Allen Eldridge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973462203321
• Autore: Eldridge Lawrence Allen <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia [Mo.] ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2011
• ISBN: 9780826272591; 0826272592
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.9
• Soggetti: African American press - History - 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Press coverage - United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - African Americans; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Public opinion; United States Armed Forces African Americans; United States Race relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Bringing the news home -- Vietnam and the great society : the two-front war -- Fueling the anger : the draft and black casualties -- African American opposition to the war in Vietnam -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the globalization of black protest -- "We're with you, chief" : the black press and LBJ -- The black press and Vietnam in the Nixon years -- Race relations in an integrated military -- The black press and the Vietnam War.
• Sommario/riassunto: During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because ; the importance of the war overshadowed the civil rights movement in the minds of politicians and the public, it seemed that further progress might never come. For many African Americans, the bloodshed, loss, and disappointment of war became just another chapter in the history of the civil rights movement. Lawrence Allen Eldridge explores this two-front war, showing how the African American press grappled with the Vietnam War and its impact on the struggle for civil rights. This book is the first to examine coverage of the Vietnam War by black news publications, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964 to the final withdrawal of American ground forces in the spring of 1973 and the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. Eldridge reveals how the black press not only reported the war but also weighed its significance in the context of the civil rights movement. In analyzing seventeen African American newspapers, the author examines not only the role of reporters during the war, but also those of editors, commentators, and cartoonists. Especially enlightening is the research drawn from extensive oral histories by prominent journalist Ethel Payne, the first African American woman to receive the title of war correspondent. She described a widespread practice in black papers of reworking material from major white papers without providing proper credit, as the demand for news swamped the small budgets and limited staffs of African American papers. The author analyzes both the strengths of the black print media and the weaknesses in their coverage. He augmented this study with a rich array of primary sources--including interviews with black journalists and editors, oral history collections, the personal papers of key figures in the black press, and government documents, including those from the presidential libraries of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford--to trace the ups and downs of U.S. domestic and wartime policy especially as it related to the impact of the war on civil rights. The black press ultimately viewed the Vietnam War through the lens of African American experience, blaming the war for crippling LBJ's Great Society and the War on Poverty. Despite its waning hopes for an improved life, the black press soldiered on.