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Dache-Gerbino, Amalia; Aguayo, David; Griffin, Marquise; Hairston, Sarah L; Hamilton, Christal; Krause, Christopher; Lane-Bonds, Dena; Sweeney, Heather – Research in Education, 2019
Using Harvey's (2012) "Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography" and Sharp's (2009) Geographies of Postcolonialism as theoretical approaches and Gordon's (2008) "Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City" as historical context, a graduate-level critical geography of urban higher education class…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Resistance (Psychology), Geography, Critical Theory
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Garry, Vanessa – American Educational History Journal, 2018
As the early twentieth century's restrictive social policies and poor economic conditions relegated African Americans in St. Louis, Mo. to high poverty neighborhoods, parents were forced to enroll their children in substandard segregated schools. Meanwhile the African American population increased in size from 108,765 (11.4 percent) in 1940 to…
Descriptors: Community Education, Personal Narratives, African Americans, School Segregation
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Farley, John E. – Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1991
Examines changes in patterns of Black-White housing segregation in St. Louis (Missouri) between 1980 and 1988 using data from the 1988 Dress Rehearsal Census. St. Louis exhibited a persistent pattern of segregation from 1940 to 1980. Finds the city remains quite segregated compared to 1980 national averages. (DM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Housing, Racial Segregation