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5 - African American Educational Progress

1965–Present

from Part II - African American Educational Progress and Transformations in Family Structure, 1965–Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

Patrick L. Mason
Patrick L. Mason
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Similar to changes that occurred during the Nadir, for the decades since the 1973–1975 recession, African American – White wage and family income inequality has remained stagnant, despite unambiguous progress in the average quantity and quality of African American education relative to White Americans. This progress was due do African American self-help, school desegregation, and increase in the years of free education. But, the Black–White college degree gap has increased since the demise of Jim Crow; this increase is explained by racial wealth differences.

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skilldesegregationracial identityNAEPwealthmanagers
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The Economics of Structural Racism
Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets
 , pp. 113 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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