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The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation Paperback – June 30, 1992

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Argues that the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on desegregation has resulted in heightened racial tensions, white flight, and a deterioration of educational standards

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ Tennessee Press; 1st edition (June 30, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0870497502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0870497506
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.09 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches

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Bridgette

Excellent history of the good and bad that comes out of righting wrongs

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This book is well researched and cited. It provides a more realistic view of forced integration. Maybe we can think of some better ways in the future.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2003

The Burden of Brown is a great book for anyone wanting to study the problems of integration. A book like this is hard to find. Author Raymond Walters covers the history of integration beginning with a few years prior to the Brown desegregation ruling. This book is not exactly a polemic against integration; I consider it objective, but so many downsides to forced integration are presented that the reader will not come away with a positive outlook on all of the changes of the last half century regarding integration.
Prior to the 1954 desegregation ruling, blacks had inferior schools due to their inability to raise as much money for their schools because they had less valuable property to tax than whites and did not create as much wealth. This lead to inequalities in how much funding was provided for black and white schools. Before Brown, some state governments decided to spend more on black schools to equalize them financially with the white schools, so they could avoid integration and uphold the separate but equal ruling. The Brown hearing itself involved a black family who did not want to bus their child to an all black school far away when there was a white one close by.
The original ruling for desegration was interpreted to mean that a school could not use race as a basis for choosing its students; but there would be no forced busing to forcibly integrate a school to achieve a certain racial balance. But during the sixties, environmental explanations for black's inferior performance in schools came into vogue. It was considered that blacks in segregated schools were in inherently inferior schools because the segregated blacks got the impression that they were too inferior to participate in white society. Psychologist Kenneth Clark brought out his black and white dolls and found out that (gasp!) black children were choosing white dolls over black ones in the segregated south, which obviously meant that blacks were being psychologically warped into thinking they were inferior to whites in segregated schools. (It's silly, I know, but bear with me.)
Consequently, the new solution ruled by the courts was to rule that schools had to forcibly integrated to achieve a certain racial balance so that blacks wouldn't feel inferior and that they would learn the values of white middle class society and maybe some of the smarts of one race would rub off on the other. Ability tracking was even done away with in some schools because it was thought that this rubbing-off principle wouldn't work if remedial students weren't sitting around the bright ones. And blacks disproportinately made up remedial classes. Never mind if brighter students were held back by the mediocre pace of a class with integrated intellectual levels.
When the schools became forcibly integrated, there was a massive resistance by whites once they found out that in integrated schools crime and foul language were increasing and the standards of education were more geared towards integration and equality rather separation and quality. Even the many blacks were dissatified with forced busing and integrated classrooms that took no account of differing intellectual abilities. One mother complained that her daughter was frustated in the new integrated class because it was above her abilities.
Whites began to move out of the inner cities to white suburban schools or, as in one case down south, whites closed the public school, which left the blacks without a school for a time, and created a private white segregated one. Integration worked better in places where there wasn't a high minority population such as in Topeka, but proved disastrous in places like Washington, DC and Wilmington, Delaware in which nearly all the whites eventually moved out as the schools became bad inner city schools.
I saw the book as good demonstration of the weaknesses of the environmental theory of why races perform at differing levels. There is a general fear to say that such differences are innate since then the problem of differences can't be rectified by liberal social engineering and many people are loathe to differiate between inferior and superior in a society that believes in egalitarianism so much.
Wolters himself comes to fuzzy conclusions near the end. At one moment, he says he supports getting back to local control over schools as opposed to federal control with its forced integration. In another moment, he seems to deplore the increasing segregation of northern schools and declares that more compulsion is needed. But other than that funny little line, Wolters lays down the cold, hard facts about the dire consequences of having integrated schools.

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a healing read

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2011

Only now are white children of this era coming of age and really looking back many of them, wondering oftentimes at lost lives and a sense that something went wrong with lives and aspirations. What was wrong in those years that made them uninterested in school? Had them being bored or dropping out? How did the politics make them feel? Why did they cease to care more about what had at one time been "their country?" A country where they could live and learn and were intersted in it? This kind of work can help such people by just showing that it was real, that things were going on in the background of their education that explain things that happened---like other kids taking advantage of them or stealing and no punishment ever being given. All kids in school now should read this and other books--- to understand the system they live in. This book should have been available to young kids--- to understand it wasn't all their imagination, the wrongness of certain things.

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Andre M.

One sided in the extreme

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2003

While I am no fan of political correctness, this is in fact a rather one sided view on the results of integrating American schools. As one who went to intergrated schools in the 1970s, I find some of what Wolters writes about undeniable. Yes there were many riots and yes not all Black kids were the innocent heroes often portayed in TV-movies of this era. But to completely dismiss school integration as a failure is asinine. Those of us who have experienced this era must also admit that in spite of the problems we had during this period, positive results such as lasting frinedship and better understanding among the races DID happen frequently ("Remember the Titans," anyone?).
If Wolters and others would like to go back to the days of seperate and unequal de jure schools and when fear prevented interracial friendships, they are welcome to take a trip on a one-way time machine backward. Meanwhile, many of us enjoy the present and the future just fine.

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