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End of Desegregation?
After over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the …
Troubled Dream
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the United States still has a long way to go to attain true integration of our educational system. Using extensive interviews and a …
Blue Collar Bayou
Although the French language and the traditional rural way of life are disappearing among Louisiana Cajuns, identification with Cajun ethnicity is flourishing. Henry and Bankston …
Affirmative Action
Forced to Fail
Caldas and Bankston provide a critical, dispassionate analysis of why desegregation in the United States has failed to achieve the goal of providing equal educational opportunities …
Rise of the New Second Generation
In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "e;new second generation"e; refers to foreign-born and …
Notorious Lives
Notorious Lives is an entirely new publication continuing Salem's ""Great Lives from History"" series, offering more than 600 essays focusing on historically significant personages …
Public Education--America's Civil Religion
In this provocative volume, the authors argue that public education is a central part of American civil religion and, thus, gives us an unquestioning faith in the capacity of …
Asia and the Middle East
Asia and the Middle East examines crisis areas in the nations of the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. This set applies a broad definition to ""Middle East"" …
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student …
Sociology Basics
Broad in scope, this title offers non-specialists with insights into sociology topics that are often only accessible to academics and experts in the field in a format that should …
American Ideas of Equality
Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political life and the pursuit of equality has …