Integration Interrupted Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown

Karolyn Tyson, "Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown"
English | ISBN: 0199736448 | 2011 | 240 pages | PDF | 1337 KB
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 taking advanced classes, doing schoolwork, and striving to earn high grades. Carefully reconsidering how and why black students have come to equate school success with whiteness, Integration Interrupted argues that when students understand race to be connected with achievement, it is a powerful lesson conveyed by schools, not their peers. Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic research, Karolyn Tyson shows how equating school success with "acting white" arose in the aftermath of