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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
by Stuart Buck
Yale University Press, 261 pp., $27.50
by Stuart Buck
Yale University Press, 261 pp., $27.50
In 2000, in a book called Losing the Race, I argued that much of the reason for the gap between the grades and test scores of black students and white students was that black teens often equated doing well in school with “acting white.” I knew that a book which did not focus on racism’s role in this problem would attract bitter criticism. I was hardly surprised to be called a “sell-out” and “not really black” because I grew up middle class and thus had no understanding of black culture. But one of the few criticisms that I had not anticipated was that the “acting white” slam did not even exist.
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