Racialized identities : race and achievement among African American youth / Na'ilah Suad Nasir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nasir, Na'ilah Suad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American youth--Education.

African American youth.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

African American students--Social conditions.

African American students.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school.Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings

Contents:

Identity as possibility and limitation

When learning and identities align

Wrestling with stereotypes

On being black at school

Caught between worlds

Reflections on identity and learning

Up you mighty race : teaching as identity-building.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804779142

0804779147

OCLC:

756484122