Busing and Backlash: White Against White in a California School District

Lillian B. Rubin

Univ of California Press, Jul 15, 2022 - Education - 262 pages

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• A School District Is Born: 21
• White Against White: 39
• Median Reading Scores in Selected RUSD Ele: 43
• Levels of Education of Liberal and Conservative: 52
• The Seeds of Disharmony: 77
• Racial Distribution of Students in the RUSD: 81
• The Liberal Dilemma: 90
• 1967: 108
• Results of the RUSD School Board Election: 117
• 19671969: 120
• 1969: 143
• Results of the RUSD School Board and Tax Rate: 148
• Comparison of the RUSD 1969 School Board: 152
• The Lame Duck Board: 157
• The Conservatives Take Office: 164
• Conclusion: 195
• Supplementary Tables: 211
• Notes: 223
• Bibliography: 231
• Index: 245

About the author

Lillian B. Rubin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1924. She graduated from high school at the age of 15, was able to obtain a secretarial job, and was married at the age of 19. She had a daughter and worked at various jobs for over 20 years before enrolling in college in 1963. She received a B.A. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving postgraduate training as a psychotherapist, she began a dual career as a sociological researcher and a private therapist. She became a senior research associate at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at Berkeley, where she worked for many years while writing books. She wrote a series of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human potential. Her books include Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together, Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives, Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity, and The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph over the Past. She died on June 17, 2014 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Busing and Backlash: White Against White in a California School District; UC Press voices revived
• Author: Lillian B. Rubin
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2022
• ISBN: 0520325109, 9780520325104
• Length: 262 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / History; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Social Science / Sociology / Urban