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The Culture Trap - Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Hardcover)
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The Culture Trap - Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Hardcover)
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In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on
culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in
schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and
institutional processes that shape how Black students experience
schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and
ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young
people in London and New York City. Since the 1920s, Black
Caribbeans in New York have been considered a high-achieving Black
model minority. Conversely, since the 1950s, Black Caribbeans in
London have been regarded as a chronically underachieving minority.
In both contexts, however, it is often suggested that Caribbean
culture informs their status, whether as a celebrated minority in
the US or as a demoted minority in Britain. Drawing on rich
ethnographic observations, as well as interview and archival data
from two of the largest public schools in London and New York City,
Wallace interrogates the fault lines of these claims, and
highlights the influence of colonialism, class, and context in
shaping Black Caribbeans' educational experiences. As racial and
ethnic achievement gaps and discussions about what to do about them
persist in the US and Britain, Wallace shows how culture is at
times used as an alibi for racism in schools, and points out what
educators, parents, and students can do to change it.
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