'Desegregation' of English schools : bussing, race and urban space, 1960s-80s.
Dispersal, or 'bussing', was introduced in England in the early-1960s after white parents expressed concerns that the sudden influx of non-Anglophone South Asian children was holding back their own children's education. It consisted of sending busloads of mostly Asian children to pred...
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[Place of publication not identified] :
MANCHESTER UNIV Press
2018.
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvn96hvg |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Front matter; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; "To allay people's fears on numbers": the introduction of dispersal in Southall; Improvisation in high places? Setting the national framework for bussing; "Before it gets out of hand": the introduction of dispersal in Bradford; Reluctant cities: how London and Birmingham said no to dispersal; Dispersing in diverse places: how the other LEAs fared; Taking the bullying by the horns: the emergence of resistance to bussing; Babylon by bus: the quotidian experience of being bussed; Conclusion; Bibliography