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African American Parent Perspectives On School Segregation And Integration, Beatrice Rendon
African American Parent Perspectives On School Segregation And Integration, Beatrice Rendon
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
This capstone thesis explores the question: What are African American parent perspectives on segregation and integration in a large urban district in the Midwest? I review the literature on Critical Race Theory, counterstorytelling as a narrative research approach, historical factors leading to re-segregation in American schools, African American family engagement paradigms, African American families and school choice, and the effects of segregation on students. My narrative research approach centers the voices of four African American women who tell the stories of their school experiences as students and parents of Black children in the same urban district. While each parent had …