This study focuses on personal and structural problems experienced by African-American male high school dropouts and personal and structural factors that prevented the African-American male stay-ins and white high school male stay-ins from dropping out of school. To help make this ethnography sound, the earlier ethnographies, speeches on education, and related research, from slavery until now, are used to inform this ethnography on retention of students in high school. Contents: Introduction; Research Design; African-American Male High School Dropouts; Twelfth Grade Male Stay-ins; Determining a Potential High School Male Dropout; Social Policy.

Retention of African-American Males in High School

Barnes, Annie S.

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University Press of America

Say It Loud: Middle-Class Blacks Talk About Racism and What to Do About It

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pilgrim Pr

Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety

Wyndham Hall Pr

Historically, says the author, there has been a general tendency in American society to assume that whites are by some standard middle class and blacks are not. That is, upon first contact, a white person is likely to be accorded the deference and respect that is normally accorded middle class persons. Unless there are rather obvious and detectable indications to the contrary; however, a black person is likely to be held to have a lower class life style. He or she is, therefore, treated with the lack of deference and respect in the manner considered appropriate for dealing with persons of a low status. Since the benefit of the doubt is given to whites, but the reverse occurs with blacks, one would expect black families of comfortable means and good education to not only optimize material and behavior symbols of social rank to assure that their relative social worth is not misperceived, but to train their children in such a way that increases their chances of achieving and communicating the ranking of their family of orientation. This is, indeed, what this book explores and the results are quite provocative.

Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction

In today's media-driven society, not surprisingly, high-profile racist incidents make headlines. But what about the racism that seeps into our everyday lives-the pernicious, destructive acts that break down the social fabric and carve ever deeper divisions between us? Annie S. Barnes has solicited the stories of 150 black college students from middle-class backgrounds, who tell of their frequent encounters with racism-at school, at work, in their neighborhoods, at restaurants and shopping malls. Through their disquieting testimony, the daily indignities that black Americans still suffer are brought to light. Following these personal accounts, Barnes offers simple yet profound ideas for what blacks, whites and others can do to confront-and respond to-racism in all its guises.

Everyday Racism: A Book for All Americans

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