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O'Brien, Robert M. – American Journal of Sociology, 1987
Using national data on homicide, rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, and robbery, this article examines assertions that violent crime in the United States is disproportionately interracial. Concludes that whatever measures are used, violent crimes are found to be intraracial (within racial classifications) to a far greater extent than…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminology, Racial Distribution, Statistical Analysis

Featherman, David L.; Hauser, Robert M. – American Journal of Sociology, 1976
Comparison of black and white men in the experienced civilian labor force between 1972 and 1973 shows that race and class have become less important in the occupational hierarchy. Statistical tables are included. (ND)
Descriptors: Labor Force, Laborers, Racial Balance, Racial Distribution

Wright, Erik Olin – American Journal of Sociology, 1978
Discusses a study which measured how social class position of Black males determined the extent to which education could be transformed into income. Findings indicated that most differences in returns to education among races are a consequence of the distribution of racial groups into class categories. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Income, Marxian Analysis

Farley, Reynolds; Taeuber, Alma F. – American Journal of Sociology, 1974
This paper presents data on racial segregation in public elementary schools in 60 cities for the 1967-68 year. As of fall 1967 few large school systems had been compelled by law to desegregate. These data represent the best available baseline prior to the major desegration efforts and controversies of recent years. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Research, Elementary Schools, Racial Composition