Susan E. EatonSusan E. Eaton is a writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line (Yale, 2001) and co-author with Gary Orfield of Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education (New Press, 1997). Her essay in this issue is adapted from a book-in-progress about the legal case, Sheff v. O'Neill. |