Investigating the role of preferences in causing persistent patterns of racial residential segregation in the United States has a long history. In this paper, we bring a new perspective--and new data from the 2004 Detroit Area Study--to the question of how best to characterize black and white preferences toward living in neighborhoods with people…

The paper discusses the collective identity of the Palestinian citizens of Israel as it is filtered to school students through the state-commissioned school textbooks. Since it was established in 1948, Israel has maintained two separate education systems, one for Palestinian-Israelis, who are now approximately 20% of the population, and the other…

This article summarizes African Americans' ongoing struggle for quality education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by utilizing school district data and secondary sources. The historic integration effort in the Milwaukee Public Schools system is outlined and the impact of sustained segregation, in the midst of significant changes to Milwaukee's social and…

The implication of reading competence in developing reflection and thinking is an important issue for student teachers to consider. Reading is also a competence, in which the language at the disposal of a person is included, to use for social development and mutual understanding. This article is based on a case study and is concerned with how some…

Background/Context: The United States is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly racially isolated across race-ethnic boundaries. Researchers have argued that both diversity and racial isolation serve to undermine the social cohesion needed to bind American citizens to one another and to society at large. Focus of…

Background/Context: Perpetuation theory predicts that attending a racially segregated school paves the way for a lifetime of segregated experiences in neighborhoods, schools, and jobs. Research conducted in the 1970s and 1980s linked racial isolation in high schools with later racial isolation in many social settings among African-American…

Racial residential segregation persists at high levels in all American cities with sizeable black populations. In 1980, 28 cities with black populations of more than 100,000 were home for 9.7 million blacks, more than a third of all American blacks. The average segregation index score for these cities was 81, when 100 means that every city block…

Article considered the Supreme Court case involving Marco DeFunis, Jr., a student attempting to gain admission to law school, and the discriminatory attitudes of law school admissions officers contrasted with the legal opinion of Justice William O. Douglas. (RK)

Reports on recent developments in the struggle of minority groups to achieve equal civil, social, education, economic and employment opportunities in several states around the country. (SF)

An in-depth discussion of the history and effects of racial segregation, defacto or otherwise, in the U.S. educational system. (BRT)

Within the past few years the courts have made significant inroads challenging the idea that the private sector is beyond the reach of the law. The focal point in eroding this doctrine of immunity has been an ancient relic of law that Congress passed immediately following the Civil War. (Author)

The business of social justice is too important to be left in the hands of those "social scientists" who are primarily responsive to majority fashion, prejudices, and power. (Author)

This book explores the 150-year struggle against segregated education, showing how victory over segregation was gained, then lost. It provides court testimonials from 1849, through the victory of NAACP lawyers in Brown v. Board of Education, to the erosion of that decision in recent Supreme Court rulings. The story reveals that this long battle…

Argues that schools have been primarily concerned with the status quo and in serving those people useful to society. Educators must renew efforts to meet problem of segregation. (LN)