Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Roslyn A. Mickelson

Preface

John U. Ogbu

A Note from

Marcellina Ada Ogbu

Acknowledgments

Marcellina Ada Ogbu

PART ONE: HISTORY AND FRAMEWORK

Chapter 1: The History and Status of a Theoretical Debate

John U. Ogbu

Chapter 2: Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White" in Black History,

Community, and Education

John U. Ogbu

Chapter 3: Ways of Knowing: The Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Collective

Identity and Schooling

John U. Ogbu

Chapter 4: Multiple Sources of Peer Pressures Among African American Students

John U. Ogbu

Chapter 5: Language and Collective Identity Among Adults and Students in a Black

Community

John U. Ogbu

Chapter 6: "Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That": John Ogbu (and Me)

and the Nine Lives Peoples

Signithia Fordham

PART TWO: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, BLACK AMERICANS, AND SCHOOLING

Chapter 7: High School Students of Color Talk About Accusations of "Acting White"

David A. Bergin and Helen C. Cooks

Chapter 8: Black Students' Identity and Acting White and Black

Linwood Cousins

Chapter 9: Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the

Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology

A.A. Akom

Chapter 10: What Does "Acting White" Actually Mean? Racial Identity, Adolescent

Development, and Academic Achievement Among African American Youths

Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani

Chapter 11: "Excellence" and Student Class, Race, and Gender Cultures

Lois Weis