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Does the Negro Need Separate Schools? A Retrospective Analysis of the Racial Composition of Schools and Black Adult Academic and Economic Success

Timothy M. Diette, Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith, William A. Darity, Jr.
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2021, 7 (1) 166-186; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.10
Timothy M. Diette
aProfessor of economics and senior advisor to the president for strategic analysis at Washington and Lee University, United States
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Darrick Hamilton
bHenry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy at the New School, United States
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Arthur H. Goldsmith
cJackson T. Stephens Professor of Economics at the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington and Lee University, United States
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William A. Darity Jr.
dSamuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, United States
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Timothy M. Diette, Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith, William A. Darity
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Timothy M. Diette, Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith, William A. Darity
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