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Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement
Horvat, Erin McNamara; O'Connor, Carla
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Description for Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement
hardcover. Elucidates the limitations of the explanation that Blacks underperform in school because they fear acting white. This work presents research that theorizes race as a social phenomenon, unmasks the heterogeneity of the Black experience, and contends with the specifics of social context in the culture and organization of schools and communities. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Why do Blacks underperform in school? Researchers continue to pursue this question with vigor not only because Blacks currently lag behind Whites on a wide variety of educational indices but because the closing of the Black-White achievement gap has slowed and by some measures reversed during the last quarter of the 20th century. The social implications of the persistent educational "gap" between Blacks and Whites are substantial. Black people's experience with poor school achievement and equally poor access to postsecondary education reduces their probability for achieving competitive economic and social rewards and are inconsistent with repeated evidence that Black people ... Read more
Why do Blacks underperform in school? Researchers continue to pursue this question with vigor not only because Blacks currently lag behind Whites on a wide variety of educational indices but because the closing of the Black-White achievement gap has slowed and by some measures reversed during the last quarter of the 20th century. The social implications of the persistent educational "gap" between Blacks and Whites are substantial. Black people's experience with poor school achievement and equally poor access to postsecondary education reduces their probability for achieving competitive economic and social rewards and are inconsistent with repeated evidence that Black people ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742542723
SKU
V9780742542723
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About Horvat, Erin McNamara; O'Connor, Carla
Erin McNamara Horvat is Associate Professor of Urban Education at Temple University in Philadelphia PA. Professor Horvat's research agenda has explored how race and class shape access throughout the educational pipeline. She has used the work of Pierre Bourdieu extensively as a theoretical frame for her work and is interested in applying and extending Bourdieu's theoretical concepts. She has written ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement
This volume makes an essential contribution to the study of racial inequality by systematically assessing the explanatory power of the "acting white" thesis. Alternative sites of racialization, gendered self concepts, and the black immigrant experience are only a few of the dimensions Lamont considers in analyzing this ill-conceived theory and proposing imaginative alternatives.
Michelle Lamont, Professor of Sociology, Canadian ... Read more
Michelle Lamont, Professor of Sociology, Canadian ... Read more