African Nova Scotians constitute the largest multigenerational Black Canadian community, with 400 years of presence in Atlantic Canada. Despite the end of "de jure" school segregation in 1954, African Nova Scotians' social and cultural capital were not incorporated in curricular and pedagogical practices. Using the theoretical framework…

The scholarship on school privatization and market-oriented reforms has demonstrated the negative effects on segregation and inequity triggered by this model, not only in Chile but globally. Less is known about how to transition toward a democratic-oriented education approach after decades of embedding the values rooted in a competition-based…

This dissertation is about a historically white university's engagement with what is called the 'coloured question.' It explores how the University of Pretoria (UP) grappled with the question of where 'coloureds' belonged politically, socially and economically in apartheid South Africa -- specifically through the disciplines of sociology and…

This essay attempts to show how the Social Darwinist thinking of white racial superiority, and so, ultimately, white supremacy, came to be institutionalised in law in South Africa. It looks specifically at the making and institutionalisation of the School Board Act (SBA) of 1905 of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It argues that the SBA…

Apartheid was a system of government in South Africa, abolished in 1994, which systematically separated groups on the basis of race classification. The Apartheid system of racial segregation was made law in South Africa in 1948, when the country was officially divided into four racial groups, White, Black, Indian and Coloureds (or people of mixed…

Provides a chronological examination of the history of the school segregation-discrimination dilemna in Chicago from 1825 to the 1930s. Attempts to highlight the resulting impediments to Black students' educational achievement and to furnish reasons for its persistence. (MK)

Examines the historical integration-segregation dilemma from the passage of the first Illinois school law in 1825 to the solidification of the segregation era in the 1930s. Discusses structural impediments to Black students' academic achievement and identifies forces which sought to establish a vocational education caste system for Blacks.…

The problems surrounding the education of a major minority group and ways to surmount these difficulties are analyzed. (CK)

Reviews the actions taken by northern black parents in opposition to policies of school segregation. (JM)

Reviews the findings of several studies on the status of race and sex desegregation in the United States. Outlines recent school desegregation litigation and developments in a number of states. (GC)

In South Africa, the policy of separate development means that there are four educational systems (for Whites, Blacks, Asians, and "Coloureds"). The disparities among these systems clearly favour the dominant minority group. Reflecting the same disparities and inequalities, special education is a matter of separating rather than…

Examines the connection between housing discrimination and school segregation in the Chicago suburbs. Argues that school segregation is partly founded on racial discrimination within local government, and that a metropolitan school desegregation plan could reduce housing segregation. (KH)

Reviews the historic white fear of the educated black man in the Jim Crow period and earlier, when education of the African American was seen as a threat to the stable workforce African Americans represented. Curtailing educational opportunity was an important means of racial control. (SLD)

This report describes the findings of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1968. A comparison with the report of the 1958 hearings in the same city is made throughout the document. It is noted that there has been minimal, if any, improvement in the discrimination against the black people of Alabama in the past…

Provides a tribute to the legacy of Thurgood Marshall through an examination of Marshall's key role in the history of desegregation. It focuses on his position as lead counsel for the NAACP assigned to argue Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court and his subsequent influence as a member of the Court. (GR)