1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465114803321

Autore

Carter Prudence L

Titolo

Keepin' it real [[electronic resource] ] : school success beyond black and white / / Prudence L. Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-988338-6

0-19-532523-0

0-19-803770-8

1-280-53428-1

1-60256-802-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Transgressing boundaries

Disciplina

371.829

Soggetti

Multicultural education - United States

African American students - Ethnic identity

Hispanic American students - Ethnic identity

Academic achievement - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; INTRODUCTION Minding the Gap: Race, Ethnicity, Achievement, and Cultural Meaning; 1 Beyond Belief: Mainstreamers, Straddlers, and Noncompliant Believers; 2 "Black" Cultural Capital and the Conflicts of Schooling; 3 Between a "Soft" and a "Hard" Place: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in the School and at Home; 4 Next-Door Neighbors: The Intersection of Gender and Pan-Minority Identity; 5 New "Heads" and Multicultural Navigators: Race, Ethnicity, Poverty, and Social Capital; 6 School Success Has No Color; Appendix; Notes

Bibliography INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Why do so many African American and Latino students perform worse than their Asian and White peers in classes and on exams? And why are they dropping out of school at higher rates? Common wisdom holds that racial stratification leads African American and Latino students to



rebel against ""acting white,"" thus dooming themselves to lower levels of scholastic, economic, and social achievement. But is this true? Do minority students reject certain practices, such as excelling in school, and thus their own mobility, because they fear that peers will accuse them of forsaking their own racial and ethnic