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

• Autore: Carter Prudence L
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.829
• Soggetto topico: Multicultural education - United States; African American students - Ethnic identity; Hispanic American students - Ethnic identity; Academic achievement - Social aspects - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Keepin' it real
• ISBN: 0-19-988338-6; 0-19-532523-0; 0-19-803770-8; 1-280-53428-1; 1-60256-802-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465114803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transgressing boundaries.