"Mechanisms for Maintaining Educational Inequality"

Indiana University sociology professor Pamela Barnhouse Walters delivered the annual Sonneborn Lecture on April 8, 2004. In her lecture, “Mechanisms for Maintaining Educational Inequality,” professor Walters discusses her extensive research on the factors affecting inequality in American education.

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• Acknowledgements: “I was raised a girl.”
  
• Prof. Walters’ opportunities and resources
  
• Prof. Walter’s work on Education and opportunity
  Lecture outline
  Processes and mechanisms of inequality
  
• Three chapters in the struggle for racial equality in American education
  
• Focus on five mechanisms of inequality
  
• Present reality of inequality