WEB Du Bois asserted that black students are better served by attending predominantly
black schools than hostile integrated schools in a context of racial discrimination. The …

Rigorous courses are an important resource, distributed within schools, that merit attention
as a central determinant of student achievement and future outcomes (Cook and Evans, J …

Crain and Mahard recently reported that the effects of high school desegregation for blacks
on school achievement and college attendance were negative in the South and positive in …

We draw on recent developments in the sociology of race and ethnicity and theories of the
duality of social structure to explain how the formation of 'educational identities' interacts with …

It is well known that the college enrollment rates of blacks have historically trailed those of
whites, although in recent decades the actual size of the racial gap has fluctuated. Prior …

As social and economic stratification between black and white Americans persists at the
dawn of the twenty-first century, disparities in educational outcomes remain an especially …

The relationship between class racial composition and academic outcomes for black
students is examined under a variety of conditions. These conditions include different …

Scholarship discussing the impact of class on black disadvantage centers around three
general claims:(1) higher socioeconomic status (SES) curtails the disadvantages associated …

This article discusses sociological contributions to an understanding of black and white
inequality in education over the past several decades. It outlines political, cultural, and …

This research note presents preliminary research into the relationship between the racial
composition of public schools in school districts and the percentages of white students in …