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Keepin' it real : school success beyond black and white /

Why do so many African American and Latino students perform worse than their Asian and White peers in classes and on exams? And why are they dropping out of school at higher rates? Common wisdom holds that racial stratification leads African American and Latino students to rebel against "acting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carter, Prudence L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Transgressing boundaries.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.