School desegregation and equitable access to educational opportunity takes alignment in the housing and education sectors. Racist housing policies and practices have systematically limited access to opportunity for generations of people of color, profoundly affecting their wealth, and perpetuating racial disparities in opportunity and well-being…

Current trends toward middle-class positivism, subtle discrimination, and less resistance to racial change portend an increase in minority middle-class membership which, in time, will promote more change. (DW)

Examined and evaluated are studies which are relevant to the experience of children in desegregated schools. The chapters in the volume are concerned with desegregation and academic achievement, aspirations and self concept, the student in school and in his family, and non-Negro minorities. Also included is a chapter devoted to the "Equal…

Studies which are relevant to the experiences of children in segregated and desegregated schools are reviewed and evaluated in this edition, including those completed by 1969. For purposes of the study segregation is defined as a socially patterned separation of people; desegregation as the abolition of social practices that bar equal access to…

At a very young age, a black child acquires a conceptualization or idea of race and the implications that such a conceptualization has for his "survival" and not quality of existence. While contemporary movements are geared toward offsetting some of the consequences, e.g., black self-determination, black power, and black control, blacks, in…