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American Educational Research Journal Fall 1978, Vol. 15, No. 4, Pp. 567-601 BOOK REVIEWS RIST , RAY C. The Invisible Children: School Integration in American Society. Cam bridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press, 1978, 289 pp., $12.50. JULI A C. WRIGLEY University of California, Los Angeles The Invisible Children report s on the experiences of a handful of black children who were bused to an upper middle class white elementary school in Portland, Oregon. Ray C. Rist uses the same type of ethnographic technique that he employed in his well-known study of an all-black school in St. Louis (1970), with intensive focus on the interactions in a particular classroom. When first con fronted with this book, I wondered why Rist had chosen to study the experiences of children in a token busing program. Th e liabilities of such a program seem obvious, and Rist did indeed find the expected results: Th e black students who were thrust into radically different cultural milieu had lonely and difficult experiences. Their parents generally remained enthusiastic about the busing plan, but it was the students themselves who bore the psychic costs of daily interactions with teachers and classmates in a school that remained resolutely
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