Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland (Rutgers University Press, 2025) considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the

process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to

matter in this process in Prince George's County, Maryland from 1945

through 1973. Organized around several successive policies that emerged

in this time: school equalization, school choice, neighborhood schools,

school construction, school closure, busing for racial integration, and

school discipline, Dougherty shows how these policies contained and

reinforced assumptions about place and created new racial truths about

people and schooling.

Dierdre Mayer Dougherty is an Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Knox College.

Max Jacobs is a PhD student in Education at Rutgers Universty.

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