{"product_id":"integrated-how-american-schools-failed-black-children","title":"Integrated - How American Schools Failed Black Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN NYPL BEST BOOK OF 2025 • A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn May 17, 1954, \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e determined that racial segregation in schools was  unconstitutional. Heralded as a massive victory  for civil rights, the decision’s goal was to give  Black children equitable access to educational  opportunities and clear a path to a better future.  Yet in the years following the ruling, schools in  predominantly Black neighborhoods were shuttered or saw their funding dwindle; Black educators were fired en masse; and Black children faced  discrimination and violence from white peers and  educators as they joined resource-rich schools  that were reticent to accept the new students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning scholar Noliwe Rooks weaves  together sociological data, cultural history, and  personal records to challenge the idea that integration was a boon for Black children. At once  assiduously researched and deeply engaging,  \u003ci\u003eIntegrated\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how education has  remained both a tool for community progress and  a seemingly inscrutable cultural puzzle. Rooks’s  deft hand turns the story of integration’s past and  future on its head and shows how we may better  understand and support generations of students  to come.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52060948529440,"sku":"9780553387391","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780553387391.jpg?v=1785505630","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/integrated-how-american-schools-failed-black-children","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}