Minority education and caste : the American system in cross-cultural perspective

Title
  1. Minority education and caste : the American system in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu.
Published by
  1. New York : Academic Press, ©1978.
Author
  1. Ogbu, John U.

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Description
  1. xxi, 410 pages; 23 cm
Series statement
  1. A Carnegie Council on Children monograph
  2. Carnegie Council on Children publications
  3. Carnegie Council on Children. Carnegie Council on Children monograph.
Subject
  1. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  2. Minorities > Education > United States
  3. Multicultural education > United States
  4. Cross-cultural studies
  5. Minorities
  6. Cross-Cultural Comparison
  7. Education
  8. Minority Groups
  9. minorities
  10. Minorities
  11. Cross-cultural studies
  12. Minorities > Education
  13. Multicultural education
  14. Bildungswesen
  15. Erziehung
  16. Nationale Minderheit
  17. Etnische minderheden
  18. Onderwijs
  19. Minorities > Education > Cross-cultural studies
  20. Nationale Minderheit
  21. Bildungswesen
  22. Erziehung
  23. United States
  24. USA
  25. USA
Contents
  1. Caste and education and how they function in the United States -- Black-White differences in school performance: a critique of current explanations -- Closing the school performance gap -- Black access to education -- The job ceiling and other barriers to rewards of education -- The consequences: Black school performance as an adaptation -- America's other castelike minorities: American Indians, Mexican-Americans, and Puerto Ricans -- West Indians in Britain -- Maoris in New Zealand -- Scheduled castes in India -- The Buraku outcastes of Japan -- Oriental Jews in Israel -- The education of castelike minorities in six societies: a comparison -- Elimination of caste barriers: how to close the gap in school performance.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 371-398.