Beyond Acting White Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement,9780742542723

Beyond Acting White Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement

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ISBN13: 9780742542723
ISBN10: 0742542726
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-09
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Beyond Acting White broadens the extant conversation on the Black-White achievement gap that has been dominated by the notion that Blacks underperform in school because they fear (being accused of) acting white. The authors elucidate the limitations of this explanation by presenting new 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Carol D. Lee
Introduction 1(1)
Framing the Field: Past and Future Research on the Historic Underachievement of Black Students
Carla O'Connor
Erin McNamara Horvat
1(24)
Amanda E. Lewis
Part I: The Organization of Schools and Student Agency
25(64)
Bring It On! Diverse Responses to ``Acting White'' among Academically Able Black Adolescents
27(30)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Anne E. Velasco
The Making of a ``Burden'': Tracing the Development of a ``Burden of Acting White'' in Schools
57(32)
Karolyn Tyson
Part II: The Heterogeneity of Black Identity, Experience, and Response
89(68)
Shifting Images of Blackness: Coming of Age as Black Students in Urban and Suburban High Schools
91(20)
Annette Hemmings
Intersecting Identities: ``Acting White,'' Gender, and Academic Achievement
111(22)
Prudence L. Carter
To Be Young, Gifted, and Somewhat Foreign: The Role of Ethnicity in Black Student Achievement
133(24)
Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield
Part III: The Structuring of Race and Material Inequities
157(44)
Reconsidering ``Material Conditions'': How Neighborhood Context Can Shape Educational Outcomes across Racial Groups
159(17)
James W. Ainsworth
Greg Wiggan
Whiteness in School: How Race Shapes Black Students' Opportunities
176(25)
Amanda E. Lewis
Afterword
201(6)
Walter Allen
David Lemmel
Bibliography 207(28)
Index 235(10)
Contributors 245

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