This new book on Black public schooling in St. Louis is the first to fully explore deep racialized antagonisms in St. Louis, Missouri. It accomplishes this by addressing the white supremacist context and anti-Black policies that resulted. In addition, this work attends directly to community agitation and protest against racist school policies. The book begins with post-Civil War schooling of Black children to the important Liddell case that declared unconstitutional the St. Louis Public Schools. The judicial wrangling in the Liddell case, its aftermath, and community reaction against it awaits a next book by the authors of Anti-blackness and public schools.

In 1929, sociologist Manuel was studying Mexican American education in Texas, and was outraged by the lengths to which many Anglo-Texans went to deny these children and youth a proper education. He converted from objectivism to a purposivism: from describing what was, to reaching for what should and could be. His account changed the profession as w

In 1929, sociologist Manuel was studying Mexican American education in Texas, and was outraged by the lengths to which many Anglo-Texans went to deny these children and youth a proper education. He converted from objectivism to a purposivism: from describing what was, to reaching for what should and could be. His account changed the profession as w

This new book on Black public schooling in St. Louis is the first to fully explore deep racialized antagonisms in St. Louis, Missouri. It accomplishes this by addressing the white supremacist context and anti-Black policies that resulted. In addition, this work attends directly to community agitation and protest against racist school policies. The book begins with post-Civil War schooling of Black children to the important Liddell case that declared unconstitutional the St. Louis Public Schools. The judicial wrangling in the Liddell case, its aftermath, and community reaction against it awaits a next book by the authors of Anti-blackness and public schools.