Overview

This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of black self-concept, and captures the complex interplay between black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology and their resistance to the powerful structural forces operating within the school. It offers practical suggestions for working constructively with racial and ethnic subcultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies.

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Author:   R. Patrick Solomon
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9780791408483

ISBN 10:   0791408485
Pages:   159
Publication Date:   16 March 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Acknowledgments 1. Black Cultural Forms in Schools Black Cultural Forms in Schools Schools as Arenas of Conflict Theories of Resistance and Cultural Inversion The Canadian Encounter 2. Black Life and Schooling in Canada Black Life Before the West Indians Black Schooling Enter the West Indians West Indians in Toronto West Indian Children in Toronto Schools West Indian Subcultures in Toronto Schools The Community and the School Lumberville High: Its Programs and Students 3. The Jocks at Lumberville Group Formation and Membership ""Language is Unity, Identity, and Power"" Dress Style: From ""Army Digs"" to ""Fashion Dreads"" Breaking School Rules Gym and Playground: The Jocks' Domain Corridor and Hallway Behaviors Wall Dancing: Culture or Subculture? Booze, Herbs, and Soun' Sessions Summary and Conclusion 4. Authority, Whites, and Women Authority and Power Black, Brown, and White How Boys Dominate Females Summary and Conclusion 5. Sport as Work The Sport Subculture Agents of Sport Socialization Work: Life after Sport Summary and Conclusion 6. The School: Contribution to Separatism The Sorting Machine Trapped in a ""Dummy"" School ""Escape from Lumberdump"" How Staff Rule Rewards as Control Summary and Conclusion 7. When Structure and Culture Collide: The Outcome of Schooling The Reproductive Effects of Tracking School Hopping and Sports: Liberating or Reproductive? When Structure and Culture Collide Race and Resistance: An Expanded Model Implications for Blacks in Canada The Next Generation of Culture and Struggle 8. Strategies for Change Working with Black Resistance Black Subculture: From Opposition to Conciliation Tracking Revisited School-to-Work Transition School-Community Relations Out of the Gym and Back to the Classroom Toward a Framework for Race Equity in Education Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index"

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R. Patrick Solomon is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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