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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.43,Issue2,P.191-203

语言

英文

关键字

race; African Americans; segregation; school desegregation; Boston's busing crisis; Massachusetts; civil rights movement; bilingual education; Boston race relations; Ruth Batson

作者单位

[Delmont, Matthew] Arizona State Univ, Hist, Tempe, AZ USA. [Theoharis, Jeanne] CUNY, Brooklyn Coll, Polit Sci, Brooklyn, NY 11210 USA. Delmont, M (reprint author), 2138 S La Rosa Dr, Tempe, AZ 85282 USA. E-Mail: mdelmon1@asu.edu

摘要

This introduction to a special issue rethinking the Boston "Busing Crisis" seeks to examine how the misleading ` busing crisis' narrative took hold as a way to understand Boston race relations. The piece examines the long struggle for school desegregation in Boston and the myriad of tactics used to deflect and delegitmize that struggle through frames of "busing," "neighborhood schools," "choice," and "cultural deprivation" which provided a palatable way for Bostonians to explain and hide school inequalities. Finally, the piece considers the role of the media in legitimating these white framings and delegitimizing the urgency of the struggle against school inequality in the Cradle of Liberty.