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Blacked out : dilemmas of race, identity, and success at Capital High / Signithia Fordham.

Van Pelt Library LC2779 .F67 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fordham, Signithia.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Education (Secondary)--Case studies.
African Americans.
Academic achievement--United States--Case studies.
Academic achievement.
African American students--Psychology.
African American students.
African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Education (Secondary).
United States.
African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.
African American students--Psychology--Case studies.
Educational anthropology--United States--Case studies.
Educational anthropology.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 411 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
Summary:
Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Stalking Culture and Meaning and Looking in a Refracted Mirror 1: Schooling and Imagining the American Dream: Success Alloyed with Failure 2: Becoming a Person: Fictive Kinship as a Theoretical Frame 3: Parenthood, Childrearing, and Female Academic Success 4: Parenthood, Childrearing, and Male Academic Success 5: Teachers and School Officials as Foreign Sages6: School Success and the Construction of "Otherness" 7: Retaining Humanness: Underachievement and the Struggle to Affirm the Black Self 8: Reclaiming and Expanding Humanness: Overcoming the Integration Ideology Afterword Policy Implications Notes Bibliography Index
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-396) and index.
ISBN:
0226257134
0226257142
OCLC:
32821313

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