Race and Place

Deirdre Mayer Dougherty

ISBN 10: 1978828004 / ISBN 13: 9781978828001

Published by Rutgers University Press, US, 2025

About this Item

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George's County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline. Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781978828001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Race and Place
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, US
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978828004
• ISBN 13: 9781978828001
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 454 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline. Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.
 

About the Author

DEIRDRE MAYER DOUGHERTY is an associate professor of educational studies at Knox College. She is the coauthor of Making School Integration Work: Lessons from Morris.