Two articles on the black-white academic gap that persists through socioeconomic levels. This one is about Dr. Ogbu’s work in Shaker Heights and is rather detailed, while an article in The NY Times is much less meaty. Interesting reading, but I will add one thing that the articles don’t mention, regression towad the mean (a point always brought up by Steve Sailer when I mention this topic). Jensen in The G Factor noted the importance of this, for instance, “gifted” black students (IQs above 120) were far less likely than gifted white or Asian students to have siblings who qualified for enrichment programs.
What I am curious about though, what about Americans who are members of the old black upper class, the individuals profiled in Our Kind of People. These are families with generations of high achievers who quite often tend only to marry “their own.” I suspect this population regresses toward a different mean, that of W. E. B. Du Bois’ “talented tenth,” then the nouveau bourgeois that forms the majority of the black middle class.
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