Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 553 g
An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 553 g
ISBN: 978-1-64336-259-5
Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
In 1964 June Manning Thomas became one of the first thirteen Black students to desegregate Orangeburg High School in South Carolina. This extraordinary experience shaped her life and spurred in her a passion to understand racism and its effect on education in the Black community. In Struggling to Learn, Thomas details the personal trauma she and her Black classmates experienced during desegregation, the great difficulties Black communities have faced gaining access to K–12 and higher education, and the social and political tools Black southerners used to combat segregation and claim belonging.
Combining meticulous research and poignant personal narrative, this provocative true story reveals the long and painful struggle for equal education in the Jim Crow South. Thomas articulates why Black communities persisted in their pursuit of school desegregation despite the hostility and unfulfilled promises along the way. This is a story of constructive resilience—the fighting spirit of an oppressed people to ensure a better life for themselves and their children.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
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