Research Catalog

Title

Minority education and caste : the American system in cross-cultural perspective / John U. Ogbu.

Author

Ogbu, John U.

Publication

New York : Academic Press, ©1978.

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Details

Description

xxi, 410 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

• A Carnegie Council on Children monograph
• Carnegie Council on Children publications
• Carnegie Council on Children. Carnegie Council on Children monograph.

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Minorities > Education > United States
• Multicultural education > United States
• Cross-cultural studies
• Minorities
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Education
• Minority Groups
• minorities
• Minorities
• Cross-cultural studies
• Minorities > Education
• Multicultural education
• Bildungswesen
• Erziehung
• Nationale Minderheit
• Etnische minderheden
• Onderwijs
• Minorities > Education > Cross-cultural studies
• Nationale Minderheit
• Bildungswesen
• Erziehung
• United States
• USA
• USA

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 371-398.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0125242506
• 9780125242509

LCCN

77082419

OCLC

• ocm03607814
• 3607814
• SCSB-8919768

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library