The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education

"The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely solved,” write the editors of this groundbreaking and passionately argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic transformation is now clearly suburban and illustrate patterns of demographic change in the suburbs with a series of rich case studies.

The book concludes by considering what kinds of strategies school officials and community leaders can purs...