The myth of Black anti-intellectualism
Subtitle: a true psychology of African American students
By: Kevin O. Cokley
Series: Practical and applied psychology
Publisher: Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC; Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781440831560; 9781440831577
Subjects: African American students; Psychology; Race identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-127) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who am I? : the search for Black identity; title: Racial/ethnic identity and academic achievement : is this the right paradigm to explain the achievement gap?; title: Acting white and oppositional culture : missing the forest for the trees; title: Victimhood, separatism and anti-intellectualism : in defense of Black culture; title: Black students and academic disidentification : why grades don't; title: Afrocentric pedagogy as a tool for motivating African American students.