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Title:Education and politics in Liberia and the United States: a socioeconomic comparison of colony and colonizer
Authors:Nelsen, Randle W.
Hlophe, Stephen S.
Year:1977
Periodical:Umoja: a scholarly journal of Black Studies
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:55-71
Language:English
Geographic terms:Liberia
United States
Subjects:neocolonialism
vocational education
higher education
Abstract:Examines the specific interrelationship between the growth of higher education and developing governmental policies. The article compares Liberia, the colony, with the United States, the colonizer, and shows that this interrelationship is structured by the attempt of a socioeconomic elite in each country to maintain their dominant position within the prevailing socioeconomic system. Notes, tables.
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