Apartheid. USA 1988

July 26, 1987:

The level of segregation of black students in the United States remained virtually unchanged between 1972 and 1984, with nearly two-thirds of blacks attending predominantly minority schools, a new study, ‘School Segregation in the 1980's’ established. University of Chicago researchers also

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found that Hispanic children around the country are increasingly attending segregated schools, and New York is the most segregated state of all for students. In contrast to these patterns it was established that Asian students usually attend ‘well-integrated schools with white majorities.’ Professor Gary Orfield, leader of the research team cited clear signs of deepening isolation of children growing up in inner-city neighborhoods. ‘Whatever may be the roots of the urban lower class, it is certainly true that its children go to schools that are almost totally segregated by race and class and have no viable connection to any paths of mobility in education and employment,’ he said. ‘It may well be that the children being socialized and educated in these lower class schools are even more comprehensively isolated from mainstream middle-class society than were the black children of the South whose problems led to the long battle over segregated education in Dixie.’^133.

133. The New York Times, from a report by Edward B Fiske