Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement Among African American Youth

by Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804760195
• ISBN13: 9780804760195
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"