Keepin' it real : school success beyond black and white / Prudence L. Carter.

Author
Carter, Prudence L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description
1 online resource (182 pages)

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Subject(s)
Series
Transgressing boundaries. [More in this series]
Summary note
Keepin' It Real refutes the common wisdom about teenage behavior and racial difference, and shows how intercultural communication, rather than assimilation, can help close the black-white achievement gap.
Notes
Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 22, 2023).
Language note
English
Contents
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; INTRODUCTION Minding the Gap: Race, Ethnicity, Achievement, and Cultural Meaning; 1 Beyond Belief: Mainstreamers, Straddlers, and Noncompliant Believers; 2 "Black" Cultural Capital and the Conflicts of Schooling; 3 Between a "Soft" and a "Hard" Place: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in the School and at Home; 4 Next-Door Neighbors: The Intersection of Gender and Pan-Minority Identity; 5 New "Heads" and Multicultural Navigators: Race, Ethnicity, Poverty, and Social Capital; 6 School Success Has No Color; Appendix; Notes
  • Bibliography INDEX
Other title(s)
Keeping it real
ISBN
  • 0-19-774321-8
  • 0-19-988338-6
  • 0-19-532523-0
  • 0-19-803770-8
  • 1-280-53428-1
  • 1-60256-802-2
OCLC
  • 935262020
  • 1410955029
  • 57069558
Doi
  • 10.1093/oso/9780195325232.001.0001
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