Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white??

Fordham, Signithia; Ogbu, John U.

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Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white??

Fordham, Signithia, Ogbu, John U.·1986·The Urban Review

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The racial worldview holds that blacks cannot achieve in any intellectual endeavor, and this has so infected our consciousness that even young black children are entrapped in the myth and inhibited from expressing intellectual curiosity.
“The racial worldview holds that blacks cannot achieve in any intellectual endeavor, and this has so infected our consciousness that even young black children are entrapped in the myth and inhibited from expressing intellectual curiosity.10”
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Authors: Fordham, S., & Ogbu, J. U.
Affiliations: University of the District of Columbia (US)
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue: The Urban Review
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 1986
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 176-206
ISSN: 0042-0972 (ISSN-L)
1573-1960
DOI: 10.1007/bf01112192
OpenAlex: W2048522257
Cited by: 3,323
References: 58
Citations by year: 2026: 28 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 90 · 2022: 79 · 2021: 74 · 2020: 78 · 2019: 124 · 2018: 101 · 2017: 136 · 2016: 140 · 2015: 155 · 2014: 164 · 2013: 170 · 2012: 144
FWCI: 25.74
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: The Urban Review (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
Keywords: Black students, academic underachievement, acting white, fictive kinship, collective identity, racial identity, school success, academic performance, high school students, education policy

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