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Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India

evaluate Wake County within a larger context. Their local data collection provides evidence for their main hypothesis that links public support for neighborhood schools versus diversity to issues of social capital. Briefly stated, lower-income families are burdened with work and commuting demands and find that neighborhood schools help them to manage these demands. In contrast, more affluent households with ‘‘more modest work commitments, strong social networks, and greater trust in government are more likely to have the resources to be accepting of diverse schools and the costs they may bring’’ (pp. xiv–xv). This perspective frames the issues very differently from the way they were presented in the national media at the time. Recall that this was a period when a conservative wing of the Republican Party was ascendant in the House of Representatives and many state legislatures, and stories about their influence in school boards were common. In Parcel and Taylor’s account, though there was inevitably a strong liberal-conservative ideological dimension in the Wake County school board elections, other practical concerns were in play. There had been rapid population growth in the district in the previous two decades, straining budget resources and requiring new schools. With new schools came new attendance zones, so another concern related to neighborhood schools was a continual churning of children’s school assignments. Indeed, when the liberals regained control of the school board in 2011, they focused on stability in school assignments and support for low-performing schools more than on socioeconomic diversity. The End of Consensus is a relatively short book focused mainly on a specific time and place. It is especially successful in demonstrating the complexity of diversity issues in schools and moving beyond the political rhetoric within which public discussion of these issues is often presented. It could be effectively used as a supplementary reading in courses on race and ethnicity, public policy, and education. Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India, by Amit Prasad. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. 232 pp. $39.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780262026956.