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Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis
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Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.
ISBN
9781501748394
9781501748400
9781501748417 (e-book)
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"This book describes how an ethos of localism and racial exclusion created a perceived and real advantage for suburban school districts in the postwar era, focusing on developments in metropolitan Kansas City"-- Provided by publisher.
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Print version: Rury, John L. Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 Histories of American education
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2023
Series
Histories of American education
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : educating the divided metropolis
Suburban and urban schools : two sides of a national metropolitan coin
Uniting and dividing a heartland metropolis : growth and inequity in postwar Kansas City
Fall from grace : the transformation of an urban school system
Racialized advantage : the Missouri suburban school districts
Conflict in suburbia : localism, race and education in Johnson County, Kansas
Epilogue : an enduring legacy of inequality.
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