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This chapter deals with two similar but somewhat unrelated subjects, the impact of desegregation on current relations between Blacks and “ethnics”—a term which usually means White, urban Catholics—and the much broader question of whether desegregation promotes ethnic pluralism or cultural assimilation.
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Greeley, A.M. (1980). School Desegregation and Ethnicity. In: Stephan, W.G., Feagin, J.R. (eds) School Desegregation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9155-9_7
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