Racial and Non-Racial Correlates of Anti-Busing Attitudes in Louisville / John B. McConahay.

The relative strength of racial and nonracial factors in motivating the public's opinion about busing has both theoretical and policy implications. If nonracial, especially self interest, factors are the strongest motives for opposition, then the success of busing, and of school desegregation in gen...

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Main Author: McConahay, John B.
Corporate Author: Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978.
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Physical Description:41 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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