Race and Place

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Race and Place is written by Deirdre Mayer Dougherty and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978827997 (ISBN 10) and 9781978827998 (ISBN 13).

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.