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Blacked Out : Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High by Signithia Fordham (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226257142
ISBN-139780226257143
eBay Product ID (ePID)88371
Product Key Features
Number of Pages426 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBlacked Out : Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High
Publication Year1996
SubjectSecondary, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Counseling / Academic Development, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
AuthorSignithia Fordham
Subject AreaSocial Science, Education
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-033036
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisThis innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students, exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigating the price students pay for attaining it. Signithia Fordham's richly detailed ethnography reveals a deeply rooted cultural system that favors egalitarianism and group cohesion over the individualistic, competitive demands of academic success and sheds new light on the sources of academic performance. She also details the ways in which the achievements of sucessful African-Americans are "blacked out" of the public imagination and negative images are reflected onto black adolescents. A self-proclaimed "native" anthropologist, she chronicles the struggle of African-American students to construct an identity suitable to themselves, their peers, and their families within an arena of colliding ideals. This long-overdue contribution is of crucial importance to educators, policymakers, and ethnographers.
LC Classification NumberLC2779.F67 1996
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