A Moment in the Making of U.S. Race Relations: An Ethnography of Desegregating an Urban Elementary School

by Joe R. Harding, Margaret A. Eisenhart, J Michael Livesay, et al.

In the fall of 1975 through the spring of 1977, as Grandin, an urban, public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, anthropologists Dorothy Holland, Margaret Eisenhart, Joe Harding, and Michael Livesay carried out an ethnographic study of the fifth and sixth grade classes. Their purpose was to understand how the students, teachers, administrators, parents, and other community members dealt with the requirement to desegregate their school. Originally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469649438
• ISBN13: 9781469649436
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Unc Retired Faculty Association
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"