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.
Contents
Introduction: Race, Place, and Truth
Part I: Spectral Spaces: Schooling Pre-Brown 1632-1950
1 “The Party of Memory and the Party of Hope”: Contradiction in Black and White
2: Public Schooling in Maryland before Brown
Part II: A Policy of Nostalgia (1954-1968)
3: Thomas Pullen and Gradual Adjustment
4: William Schmidt and The Freedom of Unequal Choices, 1960-1968
Part III: Mythologizing the Neighborhood
5: White Suburbanization and School Construction in Belair at Bowie, 1920-1965
6: Black Suburbanization: School Closure and Urban Renewal in Fairmount Heights, 1920-1968
Part IV: Moralizing Space and Race
7: The Moral Geography of Busing, 1972
8: Discipline, Danger, and Desegregation, 1973
Conclusion: “…cleaner, whiter, richer, safer than where you are”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
