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Blacked out : dilemmas of race, identity, and success at Capital High / Signithia Fordham.
LIBRA LC2779 .F67 1996
Available from offsite location
- 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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