Working-Class Kids and Visionary Educators in a Multiracial High School

In 1970s California, when many school communities resisted progress, visionary teachers and dynamic students at Sunnyvale High School created a vibrant, multiracial school community where students took on meaningful leadership roles, found common ground, and blazed multiple paths to successful adulthood.

Karen V. Hansen is Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Sociology, Emerita, at Brandeis University, USA.

Introduction 1. A Vale in the Sun 2. Spirit by Design 3. Athletics before Title IX 4. A Fighting School 5. Tensions of Connecting across Difference 6. Was it a "Race Riot"? 7. Transformative Changes 8. Informal Support Bolsters Resilience 9. Legacies and Lessons Appendix Bibliography