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Download full textBarber, Rims – 1989
Poor black young people in rural Mississippi contemplate their schooling with the same feelings as their friends who dare to jump the local ditches filled with alligators: the odds are against escaping the alligators, and the advantages of getting to the far side are not very apparent. Living in conditions of extreme poverty, these young people…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
