The Relationship between Inequality in Education and Political and Economic Structures

教育中的种族不平等问题长期以来一直是一个 社会学和社会关注。 有些人认为， 经济和政治形势的解释，其中教育 机构是嵌入式的。 这项研究着眼于美国南部的种族不平等 1890年到1910年，在两个关键的转折点上， 被剥夺公民权和公民权，1960年至1980年， 黑人重新获得了选举权和政治地位。 我们的目标是研究这些戏剧性的教育后果 政治变革，以及政治结构 缓和了经济对教育不平等的影响， 入学形式和教育机会。 经济可能 改变，但对种族不平等的影响不大。 比如说 种族国家在1910年和1960年都非常到位，尽管 南方的经济因种植园的衰落而发生了很大变化 这是新政政策的产物。 这项研究将使用各种数据来源，包括美国。S.普查 材料以及各州的入学报告和其他 这些年来学校系统的特点，沿着 全国各地的黑人选民登记 的主要成果 兴趣是教育机会，以入学率的形式 对于黑人和白人，公立学校的隔离程度， 白色人逃离公立学校的经历。 这项研究将提供一个全面的研究种族不平等 南方教育。 正规化和制度化 世纪早期的不平等以及 自1960年代以来的这些体制安排包括 历史上和理论上的重要课题。

The topic of racial inequalities in education has long been an issue of sociological as well as societal concern. Some feel that it can be explained by the economic and political situation in which educational institutions are embedded. This study looks at racial inequalities in the southern United States at two crucial points of transition -- 1890 to 1910, when blacks were disfranchised and stripped of citizenship rights, and 1960 to 1980, when blacks regained the vote and a place in the political process. The goal is to examine the educational consequences of these dramatic political transformations, and the way in which political structures tempered the effect of the economy on educational inequality in the form of enrollments and educational opportunities. The economy may change, but have little effect on racial inequality. For example, the racial state was very much in place in both 1910 and 1960, although the southern economy was altered considerably by the decline of plantation agriculture that followed from New Deal political policies. The study will use a variety of data sources, including U. S. Census material as well as state-by-state reports of enrollments and other characteristics of school systems across the years, along with rates of black voter registration across states. The principal outcome of interest is educational opportunities, in the form of enrollment rates for black and whites, level of public school segregation, and the experience of white flight from public schools. This research will provide a comprehensive study of racial inequality in Southern education. The formalization and institutionalization of inequality in the early part of the century as well as the unravelling of these institutional arrangements in the period since the 1960s are important topics -- historically and theoretically.