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Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success: Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory?
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Signithia Fordham presents an analysis of the tensions high-achieving Black students feel when they strive for academic success. Students are pulled by their dual relationships to the indigenous Black fictive-kinship system and the individualistic, competitive ideology of American schools. By analyzing ethnographic data on six high-achieving Black high school students, the author finds that the characteristics required for success in society contradict an identification and solidarity with Black culture. Students who feel the conflict between
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fordham, S.
- Venue
- Harvard Educational Review
- Publisher
- Harvard Education Publishing Group
- Published
- 1988-04-01
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 54-85
- ISSN
- 0017-8055 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-5045
- OpenAlex
- W1822179703
- Cited by
- 742
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 43.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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