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Author:
Mocombe, Paul.
Title:
The oppositional culture theory / Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin.
Publisher:
University Press of America,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
v, 138 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
African Americans--Education.
Blacks--Education--Great Britain.
Education--Demographic aspects
Academic achievement--Social aspects.
Other Authors:
Tomlin, Carol
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-133) and index.
Summary:
This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass, and arguing that the social functions of the dominating black consciousness are the locus of causality for the black/white achievement gap.
ISBN:
0761850139
9780761850137
OCLC:
(OCoLC)496966823
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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