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Ordinary Sites

Black Student Resistance and the 1970s Texas School Desegregation Struggle
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For nearly a century, legal battles over school desegregation have attracted significant scholarly attention. What desegregation meant for the day-to-day lives of Black precollegiate students, however, has remained marginal in this larger narrative. Focusing on the "ordinary" Southern town of Waco, Texas, Ordinary Sites uncovers how the lives of Waco's Black students changed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. ArCasia D. James-Gallaway makes a compelling contribution to education history by showing how Waco's Black students reckoned with white supremacy and exercised agency as they navigated the implementation of school desegregation in the 1970s. Drawing on extensive original oral history research to reconstruct how Blackness, gender, and class differentiated these students' experiences, adds complexity and texture to historical accounts of school desegregation. In other words, James-Gallaway uncovers what has been hiding in plain sight. She introduces new methods for exploring Black geographies and theorizes desegregation as a racialized conflict over space, showing how Waco's Black students resisted antiBlackness in the hostile spatial environments of desegregated schools.
ArCasia D. James-Gallaway is assistant professor of teaching, learning, and culture at Texas A&M University.
"By focusing on the quotidian racial, gendered, and socioeconomic experiences of Black students, James-Gallaway spins anew and advances the interdisciplinary study of Black education and school desegregation history."-Michelle A. Purdy, author of Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools "A compelling and necessary book that revises the dominant narrative surrounding race and desegregation in Southern US schools and reveals the deeper cost of desegregation for Black youth in Texas. An original, engaging contribution."-Jon N. Hale, author of A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975
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