Race and Place
Deirdre Mayer Dougherty
School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland
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Release Date: 12/08/2025
School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland
Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1945 through 1973. The book is organized around several successive policies that emerged in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools, school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and school discipline. Dougherty shows how these policies contained and reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about people and schooling.