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City-Suburban Desegregation and Forced Choices: A Review Essay of Susan Eaton's The Other Boston Busing Storyreviewed by Dana Banks & Jack Dougherty - 2004 Title: City-Suburban Desegregation and Forced Choices: A Review Essay of Susan Eaton's The Other Boston Busing StoryAuthor(s): Susan E. Eaton Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300087659, Pages: 293, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com This review essay critically evaluates Susan Eaton's The Other Boston Busing Story, an interview-based study of African American alumni from Boston's METCO voluntary city-to-suburb school desegregation program in the 1970s through the 1990s. The reviewers praise Eaton's richly-textured representations of METCO alumni experiences, but they question whether the evidence supports her major policy claim that nearly all alumni would repeat the program if given the opportunity. Based on the reviewers' parallel study of Hartford's Project Concern alumni, the essay calls attention to "forced choices" faced by many African Americans in these city-suburban programs, and discusses the broader implications for contemporary policy debate on school desegregation and the vouchers movement.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Dana Banks
Trinity College E-mail Author DANA BANKS graduated with honors from Trinity College in 2003, with a major in political science and minors in legal studies and women's studies. She is currently employed at the Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel law firm in New York City.
- Jack Dougherty
Trinity College E-mail Author JACK DOUGHERTY is Assistant Professor and Director of the Educational Studies Program at Trinity College. He teaches courses in educational history, policy, and research, and actively participates in campus-community partnerships in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. .
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