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2. The Limits of Social Class in Explaining Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Strand,Steve (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- British Educational Research Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(2) : 197-229
- Notes:
- An analysis of the educational attainment and progress between age 11 and age 14 of over 14,500 students in England. Socioeconomic variables could account for the attainment gaps for Black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi students, but not for Black Caribbean students. Black Caribbean students were distinctive as the only group making less "progress" than White British students between age 11 and 14 and this could not be accounted for by any of the measured contextual variables. Possible explanations for the White British-Black Caribbean gap are considered.
3. The last enchantment
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dawes,Neville (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Leeds: Peepal Tree
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 331 p., Partly autobiographical, this novel looks at the racial politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Ramsay Tull is witness to the black racial discontents and the desire for national independence that are threatening the old colonial order; but when a chance comes to study at Oxford University, he becomes immersed in European literary culture and Marxism. On his return to Jamaica, Ramsay becomes actively involved in radical nationalist politics and begins his second journey, away from his middle-class origins and back to a true appreciation of the Jamaican people.