Elite versus Grassroots: Disjunctures between Parents' and Civil Rights Organizations' Demands for New York City's Public Schools.
Much of the sociological and historical literature, ignoring long-standing interclass disputes over integration, takes for granted that during the 1950s, all blacks, parents, and members of civil rights organizations included, sought desegregation. This article examines the interests of different se...
| Publicado en: | Sociological Quarterly Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 89 - 120 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Winter 2009
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