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Complex Justice: The Case ofMissouri v. Jenkins. By Joshua M. Dunn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 240p. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2011

Gaston Alonso
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Extract

Joshua Dunn presents a carefully researched study of Missouri v. Jenkins, a Kansas City case that led to the nation's “most expansive and expensive” school desegregation effort (p. 4). Dunn draws important lessons from the case regarding the limitations of judicial policymaking and the inability, and often unwillingness, of our nation to respond to demands by urban communities of color that equal and excellent schools be made available to all children.

Type
Critical Dialogue
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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