Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction. Race, Place, and Truth 1
4. Part I Spectral Spaces: Schooling Pre- Brown (1632–1950)
5. 1“The Party of Memory and the Party of Hope” 21
6. 2 Public Schooling in Maryland before Brown 28
7. Part II A Policy of Nostalgia (1954–1968)
8. 3 Thomas Pullen and Gradual Adjustment 45
9. 4 William Schmidt and the Freedom of Unequal Choices, 1960–1968 58
10. Part III Mythologizing the Neighborhood
11. 5 White Suburbanization and School Construction in Belair at Bowie, 1920–1965 71
12. 6 Black Suburbanization 92
13. Part IV Moralizing Space and Race
14. 7 The Moral Geography of Busing, 1972 117
15. 8 Discipline, Danger, and Desegregation, 1973 131
16. Conclusion 145
17. Acknowledgments 151
18. Notes 155
19. Index 187
20. About the Author 197