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Acting White
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Stuart Buck
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-25 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of "acting white." How did this c
Acting White?
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Devon W. Carbado
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in
Beyond Acting White
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Erin McNamara Horvat
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Beyond Acting White broadens the extant conversation on the Black-White achievement gap that has been dominated by the notion that Blacks underperform in school
Acting White
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Ron Christie
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-12 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In the tradition of Randall Kennedy's Nigger and Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character, Acting White demonstrates how the charge that any African-America
Integration Interrupted
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Karolyn Tyson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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An all-too-popular explanation for why black students aren't doing better in school is their own use of the "acting white" slur to ridicule fellow blacks for ta