Bringing Desegregation Home: Memories of the Struggle toward School Integration in Rural North Carolina [Hardcover]

This study collects the oral histories of residents of a single county in North Carolina who lived through the consequences of desegregation, examining the complex social and historical constructions of racial difference in education.Introduction 'Learn 'em To Work' 'Wait A Minute . . . I'm A White' From Social and Cultural Capital to Social Change The Ghost of Mr. Whittier Crockett Witherspoon The Gentle Rebel Pedagogy and Social Change 'You Forget This is A Democracy' A Drive to Succeed Memory, Pedagogy, and Social Change Moving On

This book elaborates on the ever-present question of the true impact of school desegregation. The experience of implementing the decision in rural North Carolina is made so real by using oral history interviews with six residents, black and white, who were part of the process. The author has done an amazing amount of research and will set us to thinking again what that decision really accomplished. - Constance Curry, Author and Activist, Atlanta, Georgia

Almost as if democracy were a hologram, collective memories on race and public education in the rural south shimmer into new focus. Each individual produces stories that seem detailed and complete - yet there are many such sites in this compelling work on the segregated nature of racial memory and social inequality. - Carol Stack, Author of Call To Home and All Our Kin

This is raw, rich, and real. In a fascinating and refreshingly accessible account of place, memory, blackness, and whiteness, Willink skillfully draws out the honest, textured, and often humorous voices of individuals as each reveals, remembers, and reasons diverse - often divergent - lived experiences during desegregation. Students and scholars will benefit from reading this book. - Karla Slocum, Author of Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place and Nation in the Caribbean

In this absorbing study, Willink has recorded memories from disparate sectorlCÜ