Desegregating Teachers Contesting the Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity in the South post Brown"
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Biographical note
Barbara J. Shircliffe has a PhD in social foundations and is a faculty member at the University of South Florida. Her scholarship focuses on the history of segregation and desegregation, oral history, and school policy.«During the struggle to integrate southern schools, did activists’ demands to racially balance school faculties help or hinder the interests of African American educators? <i>Desegregating Teachers</i> uncovers this hidden chapter of our civil rights history with thoughtfully textured local case studies. By tracing the systematic protection of white privilege across three eras of teacher desegregation – equalization, displacement, and affirmative action – Barbara J. Shircliffe provocatively argues against interpreting recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings solely as a conservative retreat from <i>Brown</i>.» (Jack Dougherty, Associate Professor and Director of Educational Studies Program, Trinity College)
«During the struggle to integrate southern schools, did activists’ demands to racially balance school faculties help or hinder the interests of African American educators? <i>Desegregating Teachers</i> uncovers this hidden chapter of our civil rights history with thoughtfully textured local case studies. By tracing the systematic protection of white privilege across three eras of teacher desegregation – equalization, displacement, and affirmative action – Barbara J. Shircliffe provocatively argues against interpreting recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings solely as a conservative retreat from <i>Brown</i>.» (Jack Dougherty, Associate Professor and Director of Educational Studies Program, Trinity College)