Gentrification and Schools: The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight

By Jennifer Stillman

Book Overview

Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349435910
• ISBN13: 9781349435913
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 8.5"