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Assessing Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Macroeconomic Effects in the Education of African Americans

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Assessing Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Macroeconomic Effects in the Education of African Americans
Abstract/Description
The “underclass” debate of the 1980s often concerned the relative importance of neighborhood racial and economic isolation to the educational challenges facing many African Americans. This review organizes the neighborhood effects research that has emerged since that time according to these differing perspectives. The review’s triangulated approach assesses (a) the association of a neighborhood’s racial segregation and low level of economic resources to less academic success, (b) whether certain neighborhood social processes lower children’s educational performance, and (c) if residential opportunity leads to improvements in educational performance after children leave impoverished and segregated neighborhoods for integrated and middle-class areas. The analysis reveals that the education of African Americans appears less affected by neighborhood conditions than the two perspectives suggest, at least as they are currently conceptualized and measured. The results are contextualized with the author’s identification of areas in the field where more research is needed, the problems and promise associated with particular analytical strategies, and other social, school-based, and human development dynamics that complicate the estimation of neighborhood influences in education.
Author/creator
Johnson, Odis
Date
2010
In publication
Review of Educational Research
Volume
80
Issue
4
Pages
527-575
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Synthesis/Overview
Keywords
race
poverty
urban education
Black education
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0034-6543
DOI
10.3102/0034654310377210
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE)
Citation
Johnson, O. (2010). Assessing Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Macroeconomic Effects in the Education of African Americans. Review of Educational Research, 80(4), 527–575. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654310377210
Cited in
Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education
Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science
Abbreviation
Review of Educational Research
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 11 Citations
OB Citations - Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science

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