The minority-status theory of Goldscheider and Uhlenberg predicts that a significant interactive relaitonship among race, education, and fertility arises partially from differences in black and white mean fertility among the highly educated. Using black and white women surveyed by the 1970 National Fertility Study, I completely decomposed the variance in fertility jointly explained by race and education to examine the from of the interactive relationship among the three variables. No support for the minority-status theory was found. The implications for future research are explored.
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