Going to School in Black and White

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Going to School in Black and White

Going to School in Black and White

Name: Going to School in Black and White
ISBN: 9781611532517

Cindy Waszak Geary

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"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are facing today." –Jaki Shelton Green, poet and NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee
The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across town from each other—one black, one white—were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970.
LaHoma and Cindy both found themselves at the same high school from different sides of a court-ordered racial "balancing act." This plan thrust each of them involuntarily out of their comfort zones and into new racial landscapes. Their experiences, recounted in alternating first person narratives, are the embodiment of desegregation policies, situated in a particular time and place.
Cindy and LaHoma's intertwining coming of age stories are part of a bigger story about America, education and race—and about how the personal relates to the political.
This dual...

Категории:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences

Година:

2017

Издателство:

Torchflame Books

Език:

english

ISBN 10:

1611532515

ISBN 13:

9781611532517