Minority status, oppositional culture, and schooling / edited by John U. Ogbu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

@contents: -- Selected Contents: -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Roslyn A. Mickelson -- Preface -- John U. Ogbu -- A Note from -- Marcellina Ada Ogbu -- Acknowledgments -- Marcellina Ada Ogbu -- Part One. History and Framework -- 1. The History and Status of a Theoretical Debate -- John U. Ogbu -- 2. Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White" in Black History-- Community, and Education -- John U. Ogbu -- 3. Ways of Knowing: The Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Collective -- Identity and Schooling -- John U. Ogbu -- 4. Multiple Sources of Peer Pressures Among African American Students -- John U. Ogbu -- 5. Language and Collective Identity Among Adults and Students in a Black -- Community -- John U. Ogbu -- 6. "Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That": John Ogbu (and Me) -- And the Nine Lives Peoples -- Signithia Fordham -- Part Two. Collective Identity, Black Americans, and Schooling -- 7. High School Students of Color Talk About Accusations of "Acting White" -- David A. Bergin and Helen C. Cooks -- 8. Black Students' Identity and Acting White and Black -- Linwood Cousins -- 9. Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the -- Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology -- A.A. Akom -- 10. What Does "Acting White" Actually Mean? Racial Identity, Adolescent -- Development, and Academic Achievement Among African American Youths -- Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani -- 11. "Excellence" and Student Class, Race, and Gender Cultures -- Lois Weis.

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