Crossing Segregated Boundaries

Reviews / Votes

"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." - Hilton Kelly, author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers
"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings."- Ethic and Racial Studies
"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening."
- History of Education Quarterly
"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation."- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s