Overview
Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline. Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.
Full Product Details
Author: Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781978827998
ISBN 10: 1978827997
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 12 August 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""With sophistication, subtlety, and ringing moral clarity, Dougherty explains how the language of community has concealed violence and discrimination against Black Americans. Race and Place will make you rethink the measure and meaning of racial desegregation in America's suburbs.""--Campbell F. Scribner ""author of The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy""
""With sophistication, subtlety, and ringing moral clarity, Dougherty explains how the language of community has concealed violence and discrimination against Black Americans. Race and Place will make you rethink the measure and meaning of racial desegregation in America’s suburbs."" - Campbell F. Scribner (author of The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy) ""Deirdre Mayer Dougherty offers a theoretically innovative, historically sound, and interdisciplinarily rich interrogation of the history of school desegregation in one of the most lauded Black suburbs of the twentieth century. Centering the agency and activism of Black citizens and critical notions of schools and communities as sites of belonging, this account delineates how leaders and residents confronted educational policy and opportunity."" - Michelle A. Purdy (author of Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools)
Author Information
DEIRDRE MAYER DOUGHERTY is a visiting assistant professor of educational studies at Knox College. She is the coauthor of The Fertile Ground of School Integration: A Counter-Story to Segregated and Unequal Education (forthcoming).
