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ERIC Number: EJ667265
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
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Black Women Beating the Odds from One Generation to the Next: How the Changing Dynamics of Constraint and Opportunity Affect the Process of Educational Resilience.
O'Connor, Carla
American Educational Research Journal, v39 n4 p855-903 Win 2002
Used life stories of 19 black women who were first-generation college graduates from three different age cohorts (pre civil rights era, post civil rights era, and post-Reagan era) to show how structural constraints shifted from one generation to another to place the women differentially at risk for limited educational attainment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment, Equal Education, Females, First Generation College Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Research supported by the Spencer Foundation, the American Sociological Foundation/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.