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Silent Covenants - Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Paperback, New Ed)
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Silent Covenants - Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Paperback, New Ed)
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When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of
Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates
believed that the decision finding public school segregation
unconstitutional could become the Holy Grail of racial justice.
Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and the racially
separate and educationally ineffective state of public schooling
for most black children, Brown is still viewed by many as the
perfect precedent. Derrick Bell here shatters this shining image of
one of the Court's most celebrated rulings. He notes that, despite
the onerous burdens of segregation, many black schools functioned
well and racial bigotry had not rendered blacks a damaged race.
Brown's recognition of racial injustice, without more, left racial
barriers intact. Given what we now know about the pervasive nature
of racism, the Court should have determined-for the first time-to
rigorously enforce the "equal" component of the "separate but
equal" standard. By striking it down, the Court intended both to
improve the Nation's international image during the Cold War and
offer blacks recognition that segregation was wrong. Instead, the
Brown decision actually enraged and energized its opponents. It
stirred confusion and conflict into the always vexing question of
race in a society that, despite denials and a frustratingly
flexible amnesia, owes much of its growth, development, and
success, to the ability of those who dominate the society to use
race to both control and exploit most people, black and white.
Racial policy, Bell maintains, is made through silent
covenants-unspoken convergences of interest and involuntary
sacrifices of rights-that ensure that policies conform to
priorities set by policy-makers. Blacks and whites are the
fortuitous winners or losers in these unspoken agreements. The
experience with Brown, Bell urges, should teach us that meaningful
progress in the quest for racial justice requires more than the
assertion of harms. Strategies must recognize and utilize the
interest-convergence factors that strongly influence racial policy
decisions. In Silent Covenants, Bell condenses more than four
decades of thought and action into a powerful and eye-opening book.
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