Race-Class Relations and Integration in Secondary Education

Caroline Eick is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor and Associate Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary's University, USA

• PART I: THE DIVIDED GENERATION (1950-1969) Memories of Class, Race, and Gender Divides: Immediate Pre and Post Desegregation Years Cautiously Negotiating Social Divides: A Conservative Student Body PART II: THE BORDER-CROSSING GENERATION (1970-1985) Memories of Interracial Peer-Group Affiliations: Integration Years Bridging Social Divides through Peer-Groups: A Socially Tolerant but Politically Inactive Student Body PART III: THE RE-DIVIDED GENERATION (1986-2000) Memories of Segregation by Class, Race, Nationality, and Religion: Destabilizing Years of Shifting Demographics Self-Segregating in Opposition To: A Student Body Sensitized to Discrimination Conclusion Methodology: The Transparent Historian