The impact of desegregation on white public school enrollment in the U.S. nonmetropolitan South, 1960-1990 /
1980 and that declines are greatest in those counties with
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 1980 and that declines are greatest in those counties with allocation and racial contact implied by public school desegregation by deserting the public schools for private discrimination" hypothesis, whites in the black belt counties enrolled in public schools declines steadily from 1960 to enrollment from 1960 to 1980 for the nonsouthern or "control" findings for white responses to public school desegregation I address this question by examining trends in white public in metropolitan areas. nonmetropolitan counties. In the southern sample, I find of the rural South responded to the changes in resource ones. I conclude by discussing some implications of the relatively large black populations and only one public school sample. Thus, consistent with Blalock's "competition- school enrollment from 1960 to 1990 for two random samples of system. I find no such declines in white public school that the average percentage of white students in grades 1-12 The central question of this research is how did whites in the U.S. rural South respond to public school desegregation? |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Sociology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 53 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |