Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

by Ogbu; John U.

• ISBN13: 9780805851038
• ISBN10: 0805851038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu'¬"s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu'¬"s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the "acting white hypothesis," is fully presented and re-visited in this posthumous collection of his new writings plus the works of over 20 scholars. Ogbu'¬"s own chapters present how his ideas about minority education and culture developed. Readers will find in these chapters the theoretical roots of his cultural ecological model. The book is organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, including his most ardent critics; Ogbu'¬"s own work can be read at the same time as his critics have their say. Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schoolingexamines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. It brings together in one volume, for the first time, some of the most critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. In addition to African Americans, it also looks at school engagement among Native American and Latino students. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of the academic achievement gap.

Author Biography

John U. Ogbu, an anthropologist, was Chancellor and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and a Member of the National Academy of Education. He died in 2003 before this book was completed. A well known writer and researcher in the field of minority education, Ogbu authored numerous books and articles on the subject. His publications include the award-winning The Next Generation: An Ethnography of Education in an Urban Neighborhood; Minority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective; and Black American Students in an Affluent Society: A Study of Academic Disengagement (recipient of the 2004 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award).

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xxiii
A Note from Marcellina Ada Ogbu	p. xxvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
History and Framework
The History and Status of a Theoretical Debate	p. 3
Collective Identity and the Burden of "Acting White" in Black History, Community, and Education	p. 29
Ways of Knowing: The Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Collective Identity and Schooling	p. 64
Multiple Sources of Peer Pressures among African American Students	p. 89
Language and Collective Identity among Adults and Students in a Black Community	p. 112
"Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That": John Ogbu (and Me) and the Nine Lives Peoples	p. 130
Collective Identity, Black Americans, and Schooling
High School Students of Color Talk about Accusations of "Acting White"	p. 145
Black Students' Identity and Acting White and Black	p. 167
Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior: The Nation of Islam and the Creation of a Black Achievement Ideology (The Remix)	p. 190
What does "Acting White" Actually Mean? Racial Identity, Adolescent Development, and Academic Achievement among African American Youth	p. 222
"Excellence" and Student Class, Race, and Gender Cultures	p. 240
Racial Identity Attitudes, School Achievement, and Academic Self-Efficacy among African American High School Students	p. 257
Reassessment and Methodological Issues
The Burden of "Acting White": Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement?	p. 275
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Confirming Oppositional Culture Theory	p. 298
Quantitative Studies of Oppositional Culture: Arguments and Evidence	p. 312
The Structure of Opportunity and Adolescents' Academic Achievement Attitudes and Behaviors	p. 348
Oppositional Identity and Academic Achievement among African American Males	p. 374
Cross-Cultural Studies of Identity
Situational Ethnicity and Patterns of School Performance among Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Mexican-Descent Students	p. 397
Navajo Youth and Anglo Racism: Cultural Integrity and Resistance	p. 433
A Quantitative Examination of Oppositional Identity among African American and Latino Middle-School Students	p. 481
Ogbu's Voluntary and Involuntary Minority Hypothesis and the Politics of Caring	p. 496
Part V
Forming Academic Identities: Accommodation without Assimilation among Involuntary Minorities	p. 533
The Minority Achievement Committee: Students Leading Students to Greater Success in School	p. 560
Conclusion
Forward-Looking Criticism: Critiques and Enhancements for the Next Generation of the Cultural-Ecological Model	p. 577
Appendix Black Students' School Success: Coping with the "Burden of 'Acting White' "	p. 593
Contributors	p. 628
Index	p. 636
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