Racialized Identities

by Nasir, Na'ilah Suad

• ISBN13: 9780804760195
• ISBN10: 0804760195
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-21
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school. Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings a deeper understanding of the local and fluid aspects of academic, racial, and ethnic identities. Exploring agency, personal sense-making, and social processes, this book contributes a strong new voice to the growing conversation on the relationship between identity and achievement for African American youth.

Author Biography

Na'ilah Suad Nasir is Associate Professor of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Improving Access to Mathematics: Diversity and Equity in the Classroom (2006), with Paul Cobb.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Identity as Possibility and Limitation	p. 12
When Learning and Identities Align	p. 32
Wrestling with Stereotypes	p. 61
On Being Black at School (coauthored by Amina Jones and Milbrey McLaughlin)	p. 84
Caught between Worlds	p. 109
Reflections on Identity and Learning	p. 129
Up You Mighty Race: Teaching as Identity-Building	p. 144
Appendix	p. 169
References	p. 175
Index	p. 187
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