Family (Dis) advantage and the educational prospects of better off African American youth: How race still matters

Teachers College Record

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-321

  Gosa, Travis L ^a   Alexander, Karl L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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