Salvaging "academic disaster areas": The Black college response to Christopher Jencks and David Riesman's 1967 Harvard Educational Review article

Journal of Higher Education

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 317-352

  Gasman, Marybeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 33645776010     PISSN: 00221546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jhe.2006.0013     Document Type: Review

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