Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement among African American Youth

Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement among African American Youth
ISBN-10
0804779147
ISBN-13
9780804779142
Category
Education
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2011-09-21
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Description

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.

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