Black resistance in high school
Subtitle: forging a separatist culture
By: R. Patrick Solomon ; foreword by John Ogbu.
Series: SUNY series, frontiers in education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Students, Black -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions -- Case studies; West Indians -- Education -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies
Description: This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of black self-concept, and captures the complex interplay between black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology and their resistance to the powerful structural forces operating within the school. It offers practical suggestions for working constructively with racial and ethnic sub-cultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.