About the book
For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant 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 compelling contribution to education history by showing how Waco’s Black students reckoned with white supremacy and exercised agency as they navigated the implementation of school desegregation in the 1970s. Drawing on extensive original oral history research to reconstruct how Blackness, gender, and class differentiated these students' experiences, Ordinary Sites adds complexity and texture to historical accounts of school desegregation. In other words, James-Gallaway uncovers what has been hiding in plain sight. She introduces new methods for exploring Black geographies and theorizes desegregation as a racialized conflict over space, showing how Waco’s Black students resisted antiBlackness in the hostile spatial environments of desegregated schools.
Editions of Ordinary Sites
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469697451
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469697468
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469695884
- PDF
- ISBN 9781469697475
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For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant 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 compelling contribution to education history by showing how Waco’s Black students reckoned with white supremacy and exercised agency as they navigated the implementation of school desegregation in the 1970s. Drawing on extensive original oral history research to reconstruct how Blackness, gender, and class differentiated these students' experiences, Ordinary Sites adds complexity and texture to historical accounts of school desegregation. In other words, James-Gallaway uncovers what has been hiding in plain sight. She introduces new methods for exploring Black geographies and theorizes desegregation as a racialized conflict over space, showing how Waco’s Black students resisted antiBlackness in the hostile spatial environments of desegregated schools.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ordinary Sites about?
For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant 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 compelling contribution to education history by showing how Waco’s Black students reckoned with white supremacy and exercised agency as they navigated the implementation of school desegregation in the 1970s. Drawing on extensive original oral history research to reconstruct how Blackness, gender, and class differentiated these students' experiences, Ordinary Sites adds complexity and texture to historical accounts of school desegregation. In other words, James-Gallaway uncovers what has been hiding in plain sight. She introduces new methods for exploring Black geographies and theorizes desegregation as a racialized conflict over space, showing how Waco’s Black students resisted antiBlackness in the hostile spatial environments of desegregated schools.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Ordinary Sites?
Society and Social Sciences > Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy > History of education
Where can I read a sample of Ordinary Sites?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781469697451
How long is Ordinary Sites and how many pages does it have?
Ordinary Sites has 264 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Ordinary Sites?
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Ordinary Sites is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469697451) and paperback(ISBN 9781469697468) and ebook(ISBN 9781469695884) and pdf(ISBN 9781469697475)
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