Introduction : the Southern dilemma : losing Brown, fearing Plessy / Gary Orfield
Pt. 1. history of the federal judicial role : from Brown to Green to color-blind
1. segregation and resegregation of American public education : the courts' role / Erwin Chemerinsky
Pt. 2. color of Southern schooling : contemporary trends
2. Integrating neighborhoods, segregating schools : the retreat from school desegregation in the South, 1990-2000 / Sean F. Reardon and John T. Yun
3. Classroom-level segregation and resegregation in North Carolina / Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor
4. incomplete desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools and its consequences, 1971-2004 / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
5. School segregation in Texas at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Luis M. Laosa
Pt. 3. adverse impacts of resegregation
6. Does resegregation matter? : the impact of social composition on academic achievement in Southern high schools / Russell W. Rumberger and Gregory J. Palardy
7. Racial segregation in Georgia public schools, 1994-2001 : trends, causes, and impact on teacher quality / Catherine E. Freeman, Benjamin Scafidi and David L. Sjoquist
8. impact of school segregation on residential housing patterns : Mobile, Alabama, and Charlotte, North Carolina / Erica Frankenberg
Pt. 4. new pressures from standardized testing
9. No accountability for diversity : standardized tests and the demise of racially mixed schools / Amy Stuart Wells and Jennifer Jellison Holme
10. High-stakes testing, nationally and in the south : disparate impact, opportunity to learn, and current legal protections / Jay P. Heubert
11. future of race-conscious policies in K-12 public schools : support from recent legal opinions and social science research / Jacinta S. Ma and Michal Kurlaender
12. Moving beyond race : socioeconomic diversity as a race-neutral approach to desegregation in the Wake County schools / Susan Leigh Flinspach and Karen E. Banks
13. new theory of integrated education : true integration / John A. Powell
Conclusion : Brown and the American South : fateful choices / John Charles Boger.
