Minority education and caste : the American system in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu.
Material type: TextSeries: Carnegie Council on Children publications | Carnegie Council on Children. Carnegie Council on Children monograph ; Publication details: New York : Academic Press, c1978.Description: xxi, 410 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0125242506
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 371-398.
WAR, NEWBERY,
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.