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Title: The Other Boston Busing Story: What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton ISBN: 0-300-08765-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing and accurate portrayal
Comment: I was a student who took part in a program exactly like this one, in another city. I got assigned this book in my sociology class and it was so amazing for me to read it because it is exactly what I went through 5 years ago. Also, many of my friends who are black and who went to suburban schools for different reasons said they could relate to this experience. I could not believe it when I read that this author was white, because all along I was reading it and because it was so accurate and real I naturally assumed she must be a black woman. This made the truth and honesty of the book even more amazing. The book would be really good for all teachers, guidance counselor and school principals and white parents to read because it really speaks to the black child's experience in a white school. And when I was a kid in school I could not have put into words some of the struggles but also all the benefits and good things that grew out of my complicated experience. But this puts it into words what so many young people are feeling but also what they think about their experience when they are looking back as grown ups.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read, moving and informative
Comment: This is an excellent book. It shows readers a better alternative to so-called forced busing which got its worse name in the city of Boston. But this book is about a voluntary program that let black kids go to suburbia. The writer really lets the former students talk for themselves and because of that it is a really moving book that feels honest and real. When the writer does comment on things, it is always very graceful and plainly spoken. This book does not try to be overly academic, and so is a welcome treat to read. I wish there were more 'human' books out there about subjects like this, which are usually written in very dull, dry styles.
Rating: 5
Summary: great job susan
Comment: This book is well written, thoughtful and balanced. It is a book that makes you think and provides the reader with some unexpected twists. I knew this writer would be a great one!!!
:) Dean Whalen
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Title: Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Ronald P. Formisano ISBN: 0807842923 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law by David J. Armor ISBN: 0195111354 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education by Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton, Elaine R. Jones ISBN: 1565844017 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton ISBN: 0674018214 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston ISBN: 1579546463 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 05 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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