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International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 20, 2007 - Issue 6: Free spaces: excavating race, class and gender among urban schools and communities
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Race and school achievement in a desegregated suburb: reconsidering the oppositional culture explanation

John B. Diamond Harvard University, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Amanda E. Lewis University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Lamont Gordon Harvard University, USA
Pages 655-679 | Published online: 25 Oct 2007

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J. B. Diamond & J. P. Huguley. (2014) Testing the Oppositional Culture Explanation in Desegregated Schools: The Impact of Racial Differences in Academic Orientations on School Performance. Social Forces 93:2, pages 747-777.
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Carol Ann Tomlinson & Jane M. Jarvis. (2014) Case Studies of Success. Journal for the Education of the Gifted 37:3, pages 191-219.
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