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Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education)

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Does tracking in our public schools isolate children, keeping them from reaching their potential? How do first generation, black immigrants handle tracking? These are some of the questions R. Patrick Solomon attempts to answer in his ground breaking book, Black Resistance in High School.

Useing multicultural education theory from one of the pioneers, John U. Ogbu, Salomon shows how first generation West Indies immigrants rebel against school authority in Toronto Canada. Salomon's style of ethnographic writing combined with controversial theory make for an eye opening read.

Black Resistance in High School is a must for every student of education and anthropology.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"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 sub-cultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies."

BOOKNEWS

"Based on his ethnographic research, Solomon (education, York U., Toronto) tackles issues in multiracial school populations in the US, Canada, and Britain that have not previously been addressed. He explores the formation of black self-concept, black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology, and their resistance to the structural forces in the schools. Paper edition (unseen)"--Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR