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    The Continuing Consequences of Segregation: Family Stress and College Academic Performance-super-

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    We seek to determine whether the high levels of African-American residential segregation experienced have continuing academic consequences. Because segregation works to concentrate poverty and the social problems associated with it, the friends and relatives of African-American students face an elevated risk of stressful life events, which undermine grade performance. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.
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