Lawrence Blum is emeritus professor of philosophy and distinguished professor of liberal arts and education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of several books, including High Schools, Race, and America’s Future: What Students Can Teach Us about Morality, Diversity, and Community and “I’m Not a Racist, But...”: The Moral Quandary of Race. Zoë Burkholder is professor of educational foundations and director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project at Montclair State University. She is the author of An African American Dilemma: A History of School IntegrationandCivil Rights in the North and Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900–1954.

"The comparative strengths of this book make this an important contribution to our understanding of the past and present . . . [it] places the long arc of activism to advance racial justice in education in historical context and explains the often swift reactions to such efforts. In so doing, it can help us better understand the roots of our contemporary politics and more precisely conceptualize arguments to advance racial justice in education."

• IntroductionChapter 1 SegregationChapter 2 DesegregationChapter 3 EqualityChapter 4 Integrations: The Capital ArgumentChapter 5 Integrations: The Civic ArgumentConclusion: Egalitarian Civic Integrationist PluralismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex