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David M. Gordon, “Editor's Introduction, Education,” in David M. Gordon, ed.,Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Perspective (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath and Co., 1971), p. 156.
See William K. Tabb,The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970), pp. 81–86.
National Urban League,Education and Race (New York: National Urban League, 1966), p. 16 cited in S. M. Miller and Pamela A. Roby,The Future of Inequality (New York: Basic Books, 1971), p. 127.
Gordon,op. cit., p. 164.
James S. Coleman and Others, “Segregation and Achievement in the Public Schools,” fromEquality of Education Opportunity (Washington, D.C.: U.S.. Government Printing Office, 1966), in Gordon,op. cit., p. 177.
Robert J. Havighurst and Daniel U. Levine, “The Quality of Urban Education,” in Henry J. Schmandt and Warner Bloomberg, Jr., eds.,The Quality of Urban Life (Beverly Hills, California: Sage, 1969), p. 328.
Robert A. Dentler, “Barriers to Northern School Desegregation,” in Bernard J. Frieden and Robert Morris, eds.,Urban Planning and Social Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1968), p. 175.
George G. Spady, “Educational Mobility and Access: Growth and Paradoxes,”American Journal of Sociology, November, 1967, p. 285.
Fred Hines, Luther Tweeten and Martin Redfern, “Social and Private Rates of Return to Investment in Schooling By Race-Sex Groups and Regions,”The Journal of Human Resources, Summer, 1970, p. 337.
Ibid., p. 325.
See Herbert J. Gans, “Income Grants and ‘Dirty Work’,”The Public Interest, Winter, 1967.
Michael J. Piore, “Public and Private Responsibility in On-the-Job Training of Disadvantaged Workers,” Working Paper 23 (Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, June 1968), p. 2–3.
Barbara R. Bergmann, “Investment in the Human Resources of Negroes,” in U.S. Joint Economic Committee,Federal Programs for the Development of Human Resources (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968) reprinted in John F. Kain, ed.,Race and Poverty: The Economics of Discrimination (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969), p. 52.
Thomas F. Pettigrew, “Racial Segregation and Negro Education,” in Daniel P. Moynihan, ed.,Towards a National Urban Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1970), p. 167.
Herbert Gintis, “Repressive Schooling as Productive Schooling,” in Gordon,op. cit., p. 211.
An excellent treatment of this construct-the life cycle viewed as “a series of games, each played according to society's rules” is found in Karl E. Tauber, “Negro Population and Housing: Demographic Aspects of a Social Accounting Scheme,” revised draft of a discussion paper presented at the Conference on Social Science Research in Race Relations, University of Michigan, April 7–9, 1967, pp. 4–5.
Bennett Harrison, “The Intermetropolitan Distribution of Minority Economic Welfare,” in Gordon,op. cit.
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William K. Tabb, Associate Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York, is the author ofThe Political Economy of the Black Ghetto, published in 1970 by W. W. Norton. His article is drawn from his presentation to A Symposium on Minorities in Higher Education in the 1970s held at the University of Connecticut in May 1971.
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Tabb, W.K. The political economy and education. Urban Rev 5, 29–32 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02315271
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