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    Christopher Bonastia

    ThumbnailMy new book, Southern Stalemate, is now available from the University of Chicago Press.
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    In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to […]

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    Christopher Bonastia

    More specifically, I examine the politics of racial inequality in historical perspective.  My first book explores the federal government’s failed attempt to foster residential desegregation in suburban areas.  My forthcoming book, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2011, examines Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only school district to close […]

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