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Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Caroline Hodges Persell, Race and Class in America's Elite Preparatory Boarding Schools: African Americans as the "Outsiders Within", The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 219-228
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