Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown

By: Tyson, Karolyn

Book Overview

An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "acting white" slur to ridicule fellow blacks for taking advanced classes, doing schoolwork, and striving to earn high grades. Carefully reconsidering how and why black students have come to equate school success with whiteness, Integration Interrupted argues that when students understand race to be connected with achievement, it is a powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199736456
• ISBN13: 9780199736454
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"