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Author Smith, Stephen Samuel, 1942-

Title Boom for whom? : education, desegregation, and development in Charlotte / Stephen Samuel Smith
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 2 Background : regime politics and the purest strain of the southern booster gene -- Ch. 3 Swann's way and the heyday of Charlotte's busing plan -- Ch. 4 Swan song for the busing plan? -- Ch. 5 Political fluidity and the alchemy of school reform -- Ch. 6 Desegregation buried in Potter's Field? : the reactivation of the Swann case -- Ch. 7 Charlotte-Mecklenburg compromise?
Summary "Bringing a new perspective to Charlotte's landmark school desegregation efforts, Stephen Samuel Smith provides a history of the nationally-praised mandatory busing plan and the court battle that led to its ultimate demise. Although both black and white children benefited from busing, its most ongoing consequences were not educational, but the political and economic ones that served the interests of Charlotte's business elite and facilitated the city's economic boom. Drawing on urban regime theory, Smith shows how busing enhanced civic capacity and was part of a political alliance between Charlotte's business elite and black political leaders. This account of Charlotte's history has national implications for desegregation, urban education, efforts to build civic capacity, and the political involvement of the urban poor."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-313) and index
Notes English
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Subject Busing for school integration -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- History
Education, Urban -- Political aspects -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
School improvement programs -- North Carolina -- Charlotte
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Busing for school integration
Economic history
Education, Urban -- Political aspects
Politics and government
School improvement programs
SUBJECT Charlotte (N.C.) -- Politics and government
Charlotte (N.C.) -- Economic conditions
Subject North Carolina -- Charlotte
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423739353
9781423739357
0791459853
9780791459850
0791459861
9780791459867
9780791485583
0791485587