{"product_id":"two-four-six-eight-when-you-gonna-integrate-paperback","title":"Two, Four, Six, Eight, When You Gonna Integrate? - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank A. Petroni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eErnest a. Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eC. Lillian Petroni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003e2, 4, 6, 8, when you gonna integrate?\u003c\/em\u003e\" is a cheer of Plains High School, a desegregated secondary school in a border state. In this fascinating study, a sociologist and a clinical psychologist explore the effects of that desegregation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheorizing that prejudices would have the most profound effect on persons in a period of major personality growth--such as adolescence--the authors interviewed students on the social and psychological impact of attending a desegregated school. Their sensitive method of questioning elicited astonishingly honest and perceptive responses from students of widely differing ideological views. Such polarized subgroups as the black militants and white racists, as well as the \"hippies,\" the Mexican-Americans, and the \"peaceniks,\" are represented in the book. Using a case studies approach, sprinkled with comments by the authors the book transcribes the students' own words about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003einterracial dating\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe generation gap in attitudes toward racial mixing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ediscrimination by teachers, counselors, and school administrators\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edifferences in the pattern of racial prejudice in elementary, junior high and senior high schools\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e and many other conflicts present in the American high school today. \u003cp\u003eThis book offers a rare glimpse at the problems of being black or white in an integrated school and provides new insight into the full magnitude and complexity of racial conflict within American society as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156980174983,"sku":"9780871402417","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/982c1fe7fe8835691d23767ee4f1677d.webp?v=1733247784","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/two-four-six-eight-when-you-gonna-integrate-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}