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Blacked Out (Paperback, New edition)
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Blacked Out (Paperback, New edition)
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This 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.
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