Blacked Out : Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High - Signithia Fordham

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Blacked Out

Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High

By: Signithia Fordham

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Hardcover | 1 May 1996 | Edition Number 1

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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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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: Stalking Culture and Meaning and Looking in a Refracted Mirror
Schooling and Imagining the American Dream: Success Alloyed with Failure
Becoming a Person: Fictive Kinship as a Theoretical Frame
Parenthood, Childrearing, and Female Academic Success
Parenthood, Childrearing, and Male Academic Success
Teachers and School Officials as Foreign Sages
School Success and the Construction of "Otherness"
Retaining Humanness: Underachievement and the Struggle to Affirm the Black Self
Reclaiming and Expanding Humanness: Overcoming the Integration Ideology
Afterword
Policy Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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