Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement
This volume makes an essential contribution to the study of racial inequality by systematically assessing the explanatory power of the "acting white" thesis. Alternative sites of racialization, gendered self concepts, and the black immigrant experience are only a few of the dimensions Lamont considers in analyzing this ill-conceived theory and proposing imaginative alternatives. (Michelle Lamont, Professor of Sociology)This fine work focuses on high-achieving black students, a group that is too often ignored or worse, treated as nonexistent. [Horvat and O'Connor] break new scholarly ground, living up to their claims of moving beyond typical treatments of the acting white hypothesis. (Camille Z. Charles)