A Social Structural Reinterpretation of "The Burden of Acting White": A Hermeneutical Analysis

Autor/in	Mocombe, Paul C.
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 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistik; Schulleistung; Sozialstruktur; Hermeneutik; Social system; Soziales System; Afroamerikaner; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Ideologie; Performance deficiency; Leistungsschwäche
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