Keepin' it real : school success beyond black and white

Keepin' it real : school success beyond black and white / Prudence L. Carter.

Prudence Carter investigates why African-American and Latino students perform less well academically than their Asian and white peers and argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carter, Prudence L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Transgressing boundaries.
Subjects:
Multicultural education > United States.
African American students > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic American students > Ethnic identity.
Academic achievement > Social aspects > United States.
Academic achievement > Social aspects
Multicultural education
Interkulturelle Erziehung
United States
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • Minding the gap: race, ethnicity, achievement and cultural meanings
  • Beyond belief: mainstreamers, straddlers, and noncompliant believers
  • "Black" cultural capital and the conflicts of schooling
  • Between a "soft" and a "hard" place: gender, ethnicity, and culture in the school and at home
  • Next-door neighbors: the intersections of gender and pan-minority identity
  • New "heads" and multicultural navigators: race, ethnicity, poverty, and social capital
  • School success has no color.

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