A social structural reinterpretation of 'the burden of acting White': a hermeneutical analysis.
This essay explores how social psychologically the social structure of capitalist inequality has given rise to the Black-White achievement gap. This critical understanding is a reinterpretation of the 'burden of acting White' hypothesis, and suggests that research on the achievement gap should focus...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 85 - 98 |
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