| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926–1972. By R. Scott Baker. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xxvi, 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-632-3.)

Paradoxes of Desegregation is a significant contribution to scholarship on African American struggles for civil rights at the grassroots level as well as on the continuing debates about the efficacy and equity of high-stakes standardized testing. R. Scott Baker deftly sheds light on grassroots civil rights insurgency in South Carolina and provides a scathing critique of how the state's white political officials, confronted by black challenges to Jim Crow, utilized standardized testing "to rationalize restrictions that had been based on race" and replace them with a racialized system that "made class, not caste, and residence, not race, the new arbiters of educational access and opportunity" (pp. 136, xxii).

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