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>In the south, typically (not always for sure) black people feel as though they are owed everything and need not do anything themselves.
As person who has lived both north and south I find this to be a very broad generalization that is inconsistent with my observations. I'm referring to my experience in Louisiana, Georgia and Ohio for the most part. I have almost never encountered this sentiment among african-americans, quite the opposite actually. The one's I know feel very strongly that a hand out is not going to fix much, and do everything in their power to improve their situation.
If you are referring to the fact many blacks are stuck on welfare - that is a complicated issue with many contributing factors. Two name a couple:
hey, good luck.
The Public Schools
Jim Crow's Children
Ghetto Schooling
We Make the Road By Walking
Teacher in America
Women's Education in the United States, 1740-1840
Savage Inequalities
Shame of the Nation
also, i'll second Tyack's One Best System
a few authors to read/study: John Dewey, Horace Mann, W.E.B. Du Bois, Maria Montessori, Myles Horton, Dianne Ravitch, Jeannie Oakes, bell hooks, Howard Gardner, Betty Reardon, Howard Zinn, Cathy Davidson
topics: Native American boarding schools, ethnic/racial biases of original IQ test designs, desegregation, resegregation, Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, Bloom's taxonomy, multiple intelligences, tracking, career and technical education, the Common Core, school choice, special education, peace education, types of schools: traditional public, charter, contract, private, independent; the superintendency and school governance, elected/appointed boards, mayoral control, teacher cooperatives; resource inequalities, the incorporation of technology, teacher training, mind brain education, learning environments, standardized testing, accountability, teacher evaluation...
a list like you've requested could never be exhaustive, but that should be enough to keep you busy for awhile.
Sort of. Not my expertise by any means, but it seemed to come up in almost every class.
The bible for this kind of stuff has to be Johnathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities. It's a pretty quick read and does a great job of laying the framework for your question.
http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Inequalities-Children-Americas-Schools/dp/0060974990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344191117&sr=8-1&keywords=savage+inequalities