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Separate and Unequal Under One Roof: How the Legacy of Racialized Tracking Perpetuates Within-School Segregation

Dania V. Francis, William A. Darity, Jr.
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2021, 7 (1) 187-202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.11
Dania V. Francis
aAssistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, United States
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William A. Darity Jr.
bSamuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, United States
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In this article, we use administrative data from three cohorts of North Carolina public high school students to examine the effects of within-school segregation on the propensity of academically eligible black high school students to take advanced math courses. Our identification strategy takes advantage of cohort-to-cohort variation in the share of eleventh and twelfth grade black students enrolled in advanced math courses when a cohort first enters a school in the ninth grade. We find that a 1 point increase in the percentage of black eleventh and twelfth graders in advanced math courses increases the likelihood that an academically eligible black student will take an advanced math course before they graduate by 22 percentage points in racially diverse schools. Effects are larger for black males.

  • racial segregation
  • education
  • inequality
  • achievement gaps
  • © 2021 Russell Sage Foundation. Francis, Dania V., and William A. Darity Jr. 2021. “Separate and Unequal Under One Roof: How the Legacy of Racialized Tracking Perpetuates Within-School Segregation.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7(1): 187–202. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.11. The authors acknowledge Kara Bonneau of the North Carolina Data Research Center for her technical assistance with the data. Direct correspondence to: Dania V. Francis at dania.francis{at}umb.edu, Economics Department, W-5-80, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 William T. Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, United States; and William A. Darity Jr. at william.darity{at}duke.edu, Sanford School of Public Policy, 238 Sanford Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States.

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Dania V. Francis, William A. Darity
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2021, 7 (1) 187-202; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.11

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Dania V. Francis, William A. Darity
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2021, 7 (1) 187-202; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.11
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