Black educational advantage in the inner city

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-47

  McDonald, Katrina Bell ^a   LaVeist, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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