Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform
Derrick A. Bell (Author)
Combines the personal reflections of a civil rights lawyer who personally handled dozens of school desegregation cases with an argument against the perfect precedent of Brown vs Board of Education. The Brown decision has played an important role in maintaining the racial divide its proponents hoped to close.
Print Book, English, 2004
230 p. ; 25 cm
9780195172720, 0195172728
875630676
CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Plessy's Long Shadow; 2. Brown's Half Light; 3. Brown Reconceived: An Alternate Scenario; 4. The Racial Sacrifice Covenants; 5. The Interest-Convergence Covenance; 6. Brown as an Anti-Communist Decision; 7. The Role of Fortuity in Racial Policy-Making; 8. Racism's Economic Foundation; 9. School Litigation in the Nineteenth Century; 10. The School Desegregation Era; 11. The End of the Brown Era; 12. Brown as Landmark: An Assessment; 13. Affirmative Action and Racial Fortuities in Action; 14. Searching for Effective Schools in the Post-Brown Era; 15. Moving Beyond Racial Fortuity; 16. Conclusion