The power of the Brown v. Board of Education decision: Theorizing threats to sustainability

American Psychologist

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 502-510

  Fine, Michelle ^a,b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CIVIL RIGHTS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; SCHOOL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CIVIL RIGHTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; RACE RELATIONS; SCHOOLS; SOCIALIZATION; SUPREME COURT DECISIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644244485     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.59.6.502     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Allport, G. (1979). The nature of prejudice. Boston: Addison Wesley.
2. Anand, B., Fine, M., Perkins, T., & Surrey, S. (2002). Keeping the struggle alive: Desegregation in our town. New York: Teachers College Press.
3. Apfelbaum, E. (2001). The dread. An essay on communication across cultural boundaries. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 4, 19-34.
4. Balkin, J. (2001). What Brown should have said. New York: New York University Press.
5. Bell, D. (1980). Brown v. Board of Education: An interest-convergence dilemma. Harvard Law Review, 93, 518.
6. Bell, D. (2004). Silent covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopesfor racial reform. New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Benjamin, J. (1988). The bonds of love: Psychoanalysis, feminism, and the problem of domination. New York: Pantheon Books.
8. Billig, M. (1998). Talking of the royal family. London: Routledge.
9. Boyd-Franklin, N., Franklin, A. J., & Toussaint, . (2001). Boys into men: Raising our African-American teenage sons. New York: Plume Books.
10. Brown v. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
11. Burns, A. (in press). The racing of capability and culpability in desegregated schools: Discourses of merit and responsibility. In M. Fine, L. Weis, L. Pruitt, & A. Burns (Eds.), Off White: Readings on power, privilege, and resistance (2nd ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis.
12. Cherry, F., & Borshuk, C. (1998). Social action research and the Commission on Community Interrelations. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 119-142.
13. Clark, K. (1979). Introduction. In G. W. Allport (Ed.), The nature of prejudice (pp. ix-xi). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
14. Collins, P. H. (1998). Fighting words: Black women and the search for justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
15. Comas-Diaz, L., & Greene, B. (Eds.). (1994). Women of color: Integrating ethnic and gender identities in psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press.
16. Cook, S. (1985). Experimenting on social issues: The case of school desegregation. American Psychologist, 40, 452-460.
17. Crosby, F. (1982). Relative deprivation and working women. New York: Oxford University Press.
18. Cross, W. E., Jr. (1991). Shades of Black. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
19. Cross, W. E., Jr. (2003). Tracing the historical origins of youth delinquency and violence: Myth and reality about Black culture. Journal of Social Issues, 59, 67-82.
20. Davis v. County Sch. Bd., 103 F. Supp. 337 (E.D. Va. 1952).
21. Deutsch, M. (2004, February). Oppression and conflict. Plenary addresses at the Conference on Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY.
22. Deutsch, M., & Collins, M. E. (1951). Interracial housing: A psychological evaluation of a social experiment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
23. Deutscher, M., & Chein, I. (1948). The psychological effects of enforced segregation: A survey of social science opinion. Journal of Psychology, 26, 286-287.
24. DuBois, W. E. B. (1935). Does the Negro need separate schools? Journal of Negro Education, 4, 328-335.
25. Eng, D., & Kazanjian, D. (2003). Loss: The politics of mourning. Berkeley: University of California Press.
26. Fine, M. (1998). Framing dropouts. Albany: State University of New York Press.
27. Fine, M., Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M., Payne, Y., & Torre, M. E. (in press). Dear Zora: Reflections on Brown fifty years later. Teachers College Record.
28. Fine, M., & Carney, S. (2001). Women, gender, and the law: Toward a feminist rethinking of responsibility. In R. Unger (Ed.), Handbook of thepsychology of women and gender (pp. 388-409). New York: Wiley.
29. Fine, M., Roberts, R. A., Torre, M. E., Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M., & Payne, Y. (2004). Echoes of Brown: Youth documenting and performing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
30. Fine, M., & Wong, L. M. (1995). Perceived (in)justice. In B. B. Bunker, J. Z. Rubin, et al. (Eds.), Conflict, cooperation, & justice: Essays inspired by Morton Deutsch (pp. 315-346). New York: Jossey-Bass.
31. Franklin, J. H. (1993). The color line: Legacy for the 21st century. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
32. Galletta, A. (2003). Under one roof, through many doors: Understanding racial equality in an unequal world. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, City University of New York, New York.
33. Gerard, H. (1983). School desegregation: The social science role. American Psychologist, 38, 869-877.
34. Gordon, A. F. (1997). Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
35. Guinier, L., & Torres, G. (2002). The miner's canary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
36. Jackson, J. P. (2000). Blind law and powerless science: The American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the scientific case against discrimination, 1945-1950. Isis, 91, 89-116.
37. Jackson, J. P. (2004). "Racially stuffed shirts and other enemies of mankind": Horace Mann Bond's parody of segregationist psychology in the 1950s. In A. S. Winston (Ed.), Defining difference: Historical perspectives on psychology, race, and racism (pp. 261-283). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
38. Jones, J. (1997). Whites are from Mars, O.J. is from planet Hollywood. In M. Fine, L. Weis, L. Powell, & L. Wong (Eds.), Off White: Readings on race, power, and society (pp. 251-258). New York: Routledge.
39. Kozol, J. (2004). The shame of the nation: The restoration of apartheid education in the nation's schools. New York: Random House.
40. Lewin, K. (1951). Field theory in social science. New York: Harper & Row.
41. Marable, M. (2000). How capitalism underdeveloped Black America: Problems in race, political economy, and society (Rev. ed.). Boston: South End.
42. Martin, W. E., Jr. (1998). Brown v. Board of Education: A brief history with documents. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.
43. Miller, D. (2001). Disrespect and the experience of injustice. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 527-553.
44. Morris, V. G., Hilliard, A., & Morris, C. L. (2002). The price they paid: Desegregation in an African American community. New York: Teachers College Press.
45. Opotow, S. (2002). Psychology of impunity and injustice: Implications for social reconciliation. In M. Cherif Bassiouni (Ed.), Post conflict justice (pp. 201-216). Ardsley, NY: Transnational.
46. Orfield, G., & Lee, C. (in press). Segregation 50 years after Brown: A metropolitan change. In L. Weis & M. Fine (Eds.), Beyond silenced voices. Albany: State University of New York Press.
47. Payton, C. R. (1984). Who must do the hard things? American Psychologist, 39, 391-397.
48. Phillips, L. (2004). Antiracist work in the desegregation era: The scientific activism of Kenneth Bancroft Clark. In A. S. Winston (Ed.), Defining difference: Race and racism in the history of psychology (pp. 233-260). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
49. Reed, A. (2004, May 3). Beyond Black, White and Brown. The Nation, 17-18.
50. Rich, A. (1979). The problem with Lorraine Hansberry. Freedomways, 19, 247-255.
51. Schwebel, M. (2003). Remaking America's three school systems, now separate and unequal. New York: Scarecrow Education.
52. Thomas, T. E. R., Steele, C. M., & Davies, P. G. (2004). Black Americans and black immigrants: The influence of ethnicity on perceptions of race, prejudice, and individual success. Manuscript in preparation.
53. Walker, V. S. (1996). Their highest potential: An African American school community in the segregated South. Durham: University of North Carolina.
54. Winston, A. (2004). Defining difference: Race and racism in the history of psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
55. Young, I. M. (2004, December). Housing, responsibility and structural injustice. Paper presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Princeton, NJ.