School Desegregation Research

I: Introduction.- Introduction: The Desegregation Situation.- 1. Inadequacies of Desegregation Research.- 2. The “Situation” in Social Science.- 3. The Current Project.- References.- II: School Desegregation in Context.- 1. Structural Constraints in School Desegregation.- 1. Introduction.- 2. A Cultural-Ecological Perspective.- 3. The Case of Black Americans.- References.- 2. School Desegregation and the “National Community”.- 1. Studies of the General Character of American Schools.- 2. The Founding Myths of National Membership.- 3. Implementation of School Desegregation.- 4. The Response of School Staff.- 5. The Wider Community.- 6. The Local Neighborhood.- 7. Family Networks.- 8. The Agenda for Ethnography.- References.- III: New Theoretical Directions.- 3. The Micro-Structure of School Desegregation.- 1. Analyzing Social Structure: Problems in the Level and Unit of Analysis.- 2. The Practice of Structural Analysis.- 3. The Historicity of Social Structure.- 4. The Impact of “Successful” Desegregation.- 5. The Macro Context of Microstructural Analysis.- References.- 4. A Model for Racial Contact in Schools Ill.- 1. A Theoretical Model for Cross-Group Contacts.- 2. Macro-Level Setting Variables.- 3. Conclusion.- References.- 5. Trait Theory Revisited: A Cognitive Social Learning View of School Desegregation.- 1. Traditional Personality Trait Approaches.- 2. The Cognitive Social Learning View.- 3. The Analysis of Environments.- References.- IV: A Reconsideration of Methods.- 6. Self-Esteem Research: A Phenomenological Corrective...- 1. The Phenomenological Approach.- 2. Verstehen: The Heritage of Max Weber.- 3. The Social Scientist and the Involved Actor: Contrasting Perspectives.- 4. Segregation.- 5. Perspectival Discrepancies.- 6. Scientific and Naive Perspectives.- 7. Discussion.- References.- 7. Schools and Social Structure: An Interactionist Perspective.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Reassessing School Desegregation from an Interactionist Perspective.- 3. Research on the Effects of Desegregation in Classroom and School Settings.- 4. Sorting Practices in Desegregated and Multicultural Schools.- 5. Minority Education in Cross-Cultural Settings.- 6. Policy Implications of the Interactional Data on School.- Desegregation.- 7. Prospects for Future Investigation.- References.- Afterword. The Research Agenda: New Directions for Desegregation Studies.- 1. The Roots of Segregation.- 2. Shared and Competing Goals of Desegregation.- 3. Effects of School Desegregation.- 4. Conclusion.- References.- Author Index.