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Autor/in | Mocombe, Paul C. |
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Titel | A Social Structural Reinterpretation of "The Burden of Acting White": A Hermeneutical Analysis |
Quelle | In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32 (2011) 1, S.85-97 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
Schlagwörter | Linguistics; Academic Achievement; Social Structure; Peer Influence; Hermeneutics; Social Systems; African Americans; White Students; Achievement Gap; Social Class; Ideology; Underachievement |
Abstract | This essay explores how social psychologically the social structure of capitalist inequality has given rise to the Black-White achievement gap. This critical understanding is a reinterpretation of the "burden of acting White" hypothesis, and suggests that research on the achievement gap should focus on how the Black-White achievement gap is more a result of two interrelated epiphenomena, "mismatch of linguistic structure" and "mismatch of linguistic social functions", which result from the class structure in Black America as opposed to a "burden of acting White", the idea that Black students intentionally underachieve because of racialized peer pressure which, culturally, associates academic achievement and success with White Americans. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |