Mandating white majorities made fully desegregated schools inherently unstable.
Evidence
The consequent “tipping” process in a number of historically black facilities threatened gradually to undermine the stability of the entire desegregation plan because Judge McMillan had ordered the school board to take affirmative action to maintain a white majority in every facility. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 94
Categorization
- DEFINE: Concrete historical instance of the ‘tipping’ mechanism — a term worth keeping in mind for dynamics of racial/class composition under mandates.
- ADDENDUM: Connects to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ tree essay only loosely, but more importantly to the reader’s theme of rationalizing ideology retreat under pressure: the affirmative-action-to-maintain-white-majority rule is a telling institutional artifact of how segregationist assumptions were rebuilt into the very mechanism designed to dismantle segregation.
- XREF: connects to: White families resist even balanced schools they must attend — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 26; White fear persists indefinitely and derails any real racial reform — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 218; Suburban school district fragmentation structurally enabled white flight from desegregation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3026 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Suburban school district fragmentation structurally enabled white flight from desegregation.
#exemplifies(0.90) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3026 - White fear persists indefinitely and derails any real racial reform
#corroborates(0.88) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 218 - White families resist even balanced schools they must attend
#corroborates(0.85) — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 26 - Parental school choice fragments entire educational systems along racial lines
#expands(0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3158