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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality
In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation— both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn’t the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first—and only—one brought by African Americans. In Divided We Fail, journalist Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of the families and individuals who fought for and against desegregation. By reframing how we commonly understand race, education, and the history of desegregation, this timely and deeply relevant book will be an important contribution to the continued struggle toward true racial equality.
- Sales Rank: #1552912 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-29
- Released on: 2013-01-29
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Despite the intent of the Brown decision, racial politics since the landmark ruling have yielded so much resegregation of public schools as to challenge the decades-old desegregation orders that black and white parents often found dysfunctional. Education reporter Garland chronicles the little-known role of black parents in the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the use of race in assigning students in public schools. The parents of children attending Central High School in Louisville, Kentucky, were motivated by the massive firing of black teachers and closing of traditional black schools when they failed to attract white students, whose parents opted out of the public school system. Garland, who grew up in Louisville and whose mother worked in the public schools as a social worker, offers heart-wrenching portraits of the families who suffered through the violence of desegregation and the loss of treasured community institutions, which led them to fight to end efforts in what had become a one-sided process. This is a compelling look at the complexities of race and class in the continued struggle for racial parity and high-quality education. --Vanessa Bush
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“Divided We Fail is, quite simply, an extraordinary book. Garland grapples with divisive social and educational issues, puts them into historical perspective, and shows a path out of our current confusion.”
—Diane Ravitch, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, historian, and author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System
"With all the noise about failing schools, standardized tests, teacher accountability, and America’s educational decline, only the courageous are willing to acknowledge the persistence of racism—let alone, address the problem in a serious, clear-eyed way. Sarah Garland has written a courageous book, documenting the struggles of courageous community activists, educators, parents, and children who continued to fight for equity and racial justice long after our nation declared victory over segregation. In telling this gripping, often tragic, often inspirational story, Garland reveals that integrating a classroom is not the same as dismantling racism. Divided We Fail is one of those rare books that will move even the most cynical to act. And act we must."
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
“Sarah Garland has brilliantly and humanely filled in a missing piece of America’s civil rights narrative. Divided We Fail is a story about the beloved institutions black Americans made for themselves—in this case, a formerly segregated high school in Louisville—and their fight to preserve and protect them. Garland renders this saga with a deep, compassionate knowledge of her own home city and equal empathy for all the partisans in a bitter legal battle.”
—Samuel G. Freedman, author of Letters to a Young Journalist
"A nuanced and thoroughly researched look at the complicated history of school desegregation in the United States."
—Publishers Weekly
"A useful journalistic examination of a troubling societal phenomenon."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A compelling look at the complexities of race and class in the continued struggle for racial parity and high-quality education.”
—Booklist
About the Author
Sarah Garland is a staff writer at the Hechinger Report. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, American Prospect, New York Sun, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Newsday, New York, and Marie Claire, among other publications. She was a 2009 recipient of the Spencer Fellowship in Education Reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Garland now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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How government failure can destroy a public school system
By Paul Mastin
As a nation, we have made great strides toward racial equality--there's a popular African-American in the White House, after all--yet in certain segments of American society, disparities persist. There is perhaps no greater glaring disparity as the differences in achievement levels between African-Americans and other students in our public schools. School desegregation arguably led to some progress for blacks, but, as Sarah Garland tells the story in Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community that Ended the Era of School Desegregation, many African-Americans recognize that desegregation is not a panacea leading to equality but may make things worse for black students.
Garland focuses on the story of public school desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky. Like many communities, in Louisville, students were bused all over the district to satisfy mandated quotas of black and white students. Many blamed the decline of black neighborhoods on this dispersion of students from neighborhood schools. Without the anchor of a common school, neighbors felt less attachment and pride in the neighborhood. In fact, some of the traditionally majority black schools had seen great improvements, winning battles for better facilities and materials. But when busing began, the student base dispersed, and the black community lost some of its unification.
Many black students lost the opportunity to attend schools in their neighborhoods. They also lost the opportunity to attend school with black peers, and to be taught by black teachers. In fact, many black teachers and administrators lost their positions. White parents weren't happy about their children attending class with black kids, but to be taught by black teachers, well, that was unthinkable. The end result "felt like an effort to assimilate black people and erase their identity and culture, and, at the same time, seemed like a not-so-subtle way of reasserting white dominance over blacks."
Another part of the irony was that black students were being excluded from special programs based on their race! This is what triggered the case about which Garland spends the most time in her book. In order to revitalize the traditionally black high school, several magnet programs and special emphasis programs were created. But white students generally didn't want to attend that school. As the white population declined, few quota slots for black students were available. When black students were then denied entry, parents started the lawsuit that, thankfully, led to the end of mandated desegregation in Louisville. As Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "The was to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
The most troubling, overarching theme of Divided We Fail is the sick consequences of excessive government intervention. One sure way to destroy something is to add more and more government policies. The school system, black neighborhoods, African-American cultural identity, and black-white race relations were all harmed by the misguided hand of government intrusion in Louisville. I like to think that there were good intentions behind many of these policies, but the cynic in me tends to think that white, racist leaders were perfectly happy and had full knowledge of what they were doing. This case, and the whole Louisville busing experience, demonstrates yet another example of the many and varied ways that government harms society, especially the poorest and most marginal.
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Well Written Account
By LCobbe
'Divided We Fail' chronicles the struggle of one group's fight against desegregation policies in order to gain access to their neighborhood school. In doing so it offers a detailed history of US education policies and their consequences and raises complex and important questions which provide a framework for critical thinking about current challenges of racial and socioeconomic inequities in our schools. Ms. Garland is not afraid to delve into the complexity of these issues; it is a well written, informative and absorbing book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Must Read for Educators
By T. Arnold
I grew up as a student in this school district. As I was one of the first to be bussed during the 70's. I felt as if I had lived a lot of the back story provided in this book. Now as an educator in an urban district, this book provided many thought provoking situations as I read. I found myself questioning ideas that I thought I understood. It is very well written, and the insights from those involved helps the reader gain the inside track to their motives.
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