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The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
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2. Orfield and Eaton, Dismantling Desegregation, 9. 3. Ibid., 17–18. 4. Ibid., 115. 5. Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past" 1255–57. On the success of southern desegregation, see Boger and Orfield, ...
Given the persistence of the color line , these individuals and the policies they support are not supposed to win very often . They are swimming against a tide so unrelenting that even minor progress must be applauded .
of a minority to an educational institution based solely on that person's race is the same thing as the denial of ... Moreover, as Ian Haney Lopez (2007) explains at length in his article “'A Nation of Minorities': Race, Ethnicity, ...