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White Girl A Story of School Desegregation

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ISBN-10: 0820345091

ISBN-13: 9780820345093

Edition: 2004

Authors: Clara Silverstein

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This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other times she was shunned altogether. In the conventional imagery of the civil rights era, someone in Silverstein's situation would be black. She was white, however--one of the few white students in her entire school."My story is usually lost in the historical accounts of busing," Silverstein writes. At the predominantly black public schools she attended in Richmond, Virginia, Silverstein dealt…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 7/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Clara Silverstein nbsp;is the author of the memoir White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation (University of Georgia Press, 2004), and a forthcoming cookbook, The Boston Chef's Table (Globe Pequot Press). A former food writer and editor at the Boston Herald , she has also contributed articles to Runner's World , the Boston Globe , The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America , and several literary magazines and anthologies.

Acknowledgments
Prologue. Bedtime Stories
A School Bus, a Mother's Tears
Joined Hands
My Father's Last Moments
Ann and Lee, Mom and Dad
Packing It In
You Talk like a Yankee
Tomboys
Freedom of Choice - Yes! Busing - Never!
"Model" Schools
Interim Integration
Busing Hits Home
Manners
Jim Crow's Legacy
Liberal Teacher, Southern Lady
The Buses Roll
No One Wants You Here
Black Is Beautiful
Self-Segregation
Separate Soundtracks
In the Classrooms
My Flag, My Shame
Girl Talk
Ebony and Ivory
The White Boys
Filmstrip in the Dark
The Fox-Trot, the Cha-Ch
Invisible
Voice of Loneliness
The Liberals
Legacy of Defeat
No Yearbooks, No Good-Byes
Singing "Dixie"
The Open High School
I Surrender!
Belonging and Not Belonging
Driving Lessons
Preppie Envy
A Shell Tossed into the Ocean
The Education Mom
Racial Differences Still Evident
Was This a Good School?
My Father's Words
I Am Lee's Daughter
Splinters of Glass
Epilogue. Binford Middle School,25 Years Later