[PDF.80fl] Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

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 | #1022797 in Books |  2010-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .90 x6.12 x9.60l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||41 of 42 people found the following review helpful.| An Excellent Assessment of the Most Important Problem in Education Today|By Fritz R. Ward|Anyone who has spent time in the classroom over the last 20 years has heard the slur "Oreo" or the complaint that someone is "acting white." I recently witnessed a fellow educator receive this slur from a young black student. Basically education is now widely perceived among some young|From Publishers Weekly|Buck, Arkansas University doctoral fellow in education reform, enters the black-white achievement gap debate with a review of anti-academic attitudes among some black students, who dub school achievement as acting white; he finds its roots

Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of “acting white.” How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolyard lexicon, and what does it say about the state of racial identity in the American system of education?

The answer, writes Stuart Buck in this frank and thoroughly researched book, lies in the complex h...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation   |  Stuart Buck.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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