Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement Among African American Youth

As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school.

Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings a deeper understanding of the local and fluid aspects of academic, racial, and ethnic identities. Exploring agency, personal sense-making, and social processes, this book contributes a strong new voice to the growing conversation on the relationship between identity and achievement for African American youth.

Author: Na'ilah Suad Nasir
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 09/21/2011
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780804760195

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012

About the Author
Na'ilah Suad Nasir is Associate Professor of Education and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Improving Access to Mathematics: Diversity and Equity in the Classroom (2006), with Paul Cobb.

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