A troubled dream : the promise and failure of school desegregation in Louisiana /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bankston, Carl L. (Carl Leon), 1952-
Other Authors:	Caldas, Stephen J., 1957-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Segregation > Louisiana > History. School integration > Louisiana > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction
The Problem of Writing about Race 1
1 Louisiana's Schools Prior to Desegregation:
The Roots of a Racially Divided Society 21
2 The Struggle to Desegregate the Schools:
Overcoming Injustice through the Schools 37
3 New Orleans: The Beginning
and the End of a Process 54
4 East Baton Rouge: School Desegregation
and Unintended Consequences 83
5 School Desegregation and White Flight in Lafayette Parish 106
6 Louisiana and the Dilemma of Desegregation 140
7 The Academic Consequences of Desegregation and Resegregation: Revisiting the Harm and Benefit Thesis 186
8 Recommendations 205
Appendix A: Single-Parent Families and Educational Environment 223
Appendix B: Multilevel Statistical Examination of the Harm and Benefit Thesis 231.