Making inequality, 1945 -- 1968 -- Metropolitan visions of segregation and growth -- Desegregation from tokenism to moderation -- The curricular organization of segregated schooling -- The spatial organization of schooling and urban renewal -- Remaking inequality, 1968 -- 1998 -- The road to busing -- Busing resisted and transformed -- Busing lived and imagined -- Busing renegotiated -- The long road to the end of desegregation -- Conclusion
Summary
In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's 'Making the Unequal Metropolis' presents a broad, detailed and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality
