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DID BROWN FAIL?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Thomas F. Pettigrew
Thomas F. Pettigrew*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor Thomas F. Pettigrew, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 273 Social Sciences 2, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. E-mail: pettigr@ucsc.edu
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In 2004, the United States elaborately “celebrated” the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. The country's mass media acclaimed May 17 as the date of a great national achievement while paying scant attention to the present racial scene in education. Yet those who believed in and fought for the racial desegregation of the nation's public schools found the widespread “celebration” grossly overstated and at best premature. With effective opposition to school desegregation unrelenting during the entire past half century, with the U.S. Supreme Court continually narrowing Brown's scope, and with African American and Hispanic American children still largely attending segregated schools, the nation's unmitigated self-congratulatory stance seemed unwarranted.

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State of the Discourse
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 2011 , pp. 511 - 516
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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