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This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It explores the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigates the price students pay for attaining it.

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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 Sages 6: 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

Blacked Out Dilemmas of Race Identity Success

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226257136, 978-0226257136
      ISBN10: 0226257134
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Schools and pre-schools

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It explores the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigates the price students pay for attaining it.

      Table of Contents
      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 Sages 6: 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

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