Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

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@contents: Selected Contents: 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