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Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s / by Ronald P. Formisano.

Title: Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s / by Ronald P. Formisano.
Author: Formisano, Ronald P., 1939-
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1991.

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Description

xvi, 323 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

In 'Boston Against Busing' Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. He sees white resistance as an example of reactionary populism, a social movement mixing both populist and conservative elements.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-311) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Not Little Rock but New Orleans -- Democracy and segregation, 1961-1965 -- Democracy and segregation part two: the school committee holds the line -- "A Harvard plan for the working class man" : reactions to the Garrity decision and desegregation -- The antibusing spectrum: moderation and compliance -- Defended (and other) neighborhoods -- The antibusers: children of the 1960s -- Reactionary populism -- Battlegrounds -- Race, class, and justice.

ISBN

0807819298 (alk. paper)
0807842923 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90012587^

OCLC

21672706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library