Binding: Hardcover
Description: Ohioana Book Award Finalist Can a group of well - intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration award - winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells the story of a decades - long pursuit in Shaker Heights Ohio and uncovers the roadblocks that have threatened progress time and again in housing in education and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s Shaker Heights began groundbreaking work that would make it a national model for housing integration. And beginning in the seventies it was known as a crown jewel in the national move to racially integrate schools. The school district built a reputation for academic excellence and diversity serving as a model for how white and Black Americans can thrive together. Meckler herself a product of Shaker Heights takes a deeper look into the place that shaped her investigating its complicated history and its ongoing challenges in order to untangle myth from truth. She confronts an enduring and troubling question if Shaker Heights has worked so hard at racial equity why does a racial academic achievement gap persist? In telling the stories of the Shakerites who have built and lived in this community Meckler asks: What will it take to fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? What compromises are people of all races willing to make? What does success look like and has Shaker achieved it? The result is a complex and masterfully reported portrait of a place that while never perfect has achieved more than most and a road map for communities that seek to do the same. Includes black - and - white images.
Title: Dream Town Shaker Heights And The Quest For Racial Equity
Author(s): Meckler Laura
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250834416
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy