Ordinary Sites
Black Student Resistance and the 1970s Texas School Desegregation Struggle
$166.79
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant scholarly attention. What desegregation meant for the day-to-day lives of Black precollegiate students, however, has remained marginal in this larger narrative. Focusing on the “ordinary” Southern town of Waco, Texas, Ordinary Sites uncovers how the lives of Waco’s Black students changed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway makes a compel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469697451 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1469697459 |
| Author: | ArCasia D. James-Gallaway |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 25mm x 155mm |
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Critics Review
“By focusing on the quotidian racial, gendered, and socioeconomic experiences of Black students, James-Gallaway spins anew and advances the interdisciplinary study of Black education and school desegregation history.”—Michelle A. Purdy, author of Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools
“A compelling and necessary book that revises the dominant narrative surrounding race and desegregation in Southern US schools and reveals the deeper cost of desegregation for Black youth in Texas. An original, engaging contribution.”—Jon N. Hale, author of A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975
About The Author
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway is assistant professor of teaching, learning, and culture at Texas A&M University.
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