biography
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. He studied at Harvard, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago, and taught at Rutgers (1962–3), Howard (1963–4), and Brandeis universities (1967–70). He left the University of California, Los Angeles (1972) to direct the Ethnic Minorities Research Project at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. His books include Black Education: Myths and Tragedies (1972) and Race and Economics (1973). During the Reagan administration of the 1980s he gained considerable publicity for advancing the neo-conservative position that affirmative action was bad for the morale of black Americans. |
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