ISBN:
9780761850137
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (v, 138 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Oppositional Culture Theory
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
Academic achievement Social aspects
;
African Americans Education
;
Education Demographic aspects
;
Education - Demographic aspects
;
Education - Demographic aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass, and arguing that the social functions of the dominating black consciousness are the locus of causality for the achievement gap
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; The "Burden of Acting White" Hypothesis; 3; Factors and Conditions that Affect the Achievement Levels of High Attaining Black Students: A Case Study of Two Urban Secondary Schools in the UK; 4; The Effects of the Restructuring of Language in the Inner City; 5; The Dysfunction of "bling bling": Black Consciousness and Black Achievement in the Age of Globalization; References Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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