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This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass, and arguing that the social functions of the dominating black consciousness are the locus of causality for the achievement gap.

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Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Chapter I. Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter II. The "Burden of Acting White" Hypothesis Chapter 4 Chapter III. Factors and Conditions that Affect the Achievenment Levels of High Attaining Black Students: A Case Study of Two Urban Secondary Schools in the UK Chapter 5 Chapter IV. The Effects of the Restructuring of Language in the Inner City Chapter 6 Chapter V. The Dysfuction of "bling bling": Black Consciousness and Black Achievement in the Age of Globalization Chapter 7 References Cited

The Oppositional Culture Theory

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/11/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761850137, 978-0761850137
      ISBN10: 0761850139

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass, and arguing that the social functions of the dominating black consciousness are the locus of causality for the achievement gap.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Chapter I. Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter II. The "Burden of Acting White" Hypothesis Chapter 4 Chapter III. Factors and Conditions that Affect the Achievenment Levels of High Attaining Black Students: A Case Study of Two Urban Secondary Schools in the UK Chapter 5 Chapter IV. The Effects of the Restructuring of Language in the Inner City Chapter 6 Chapter V. The Dysfuction of "bling bling": Black Consciousness and Black Achievement in the Age of Globalization Chapter 7 References Cited

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