Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

New Books in African American Studies · Sep 4, 2026 · 45m

Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland (Rutgers University Press, 2025) 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. 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…