Other Boston Busing Story: Whats Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line-Fast Shipping

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Title: Other Boston Busing Story: Whats Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

Author: Susan E Eaton

ISBN: 9780300087659

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: 1st (first)

Number of Pages: 306

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Publisher : METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation programme, has for 34 years transported black children from Boston’s city neighbourhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage of forced school transportation within the city in the 1970s, METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. How has this programme affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had to do it again? Would they place their own children on the bus to the suburbs? Sixty-five METCO graduates vividly recall their own stories in this revealing book. Susan Eaton interviewed programme participants who are now adults, asking them to assess the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school. Their answers poignantly show that this type of racial integration is not easy – they struggled to negotiate both black and white worlds, often feeling fully accepted in neither. Even so, nearly all the participants believe the long-term gains outweighed the costs and would choose a similar programme for their own children – though not without conditions and apprehensions. Even as courts and po