The Culture Trap

Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Derron Wallace, Brandeis University) Wallace, Derron (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education

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In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young people in London and New York City.Since the 1920s, Black Caribbeans in New York have been considered a high-achieving Black model minority. Conversely, since the 1950s, Black Caribbeans in London have been regarded as a chronically underachieving minority. In both contexts, however, it is often suggested that Caribbean culture informs their status, whether as a celebrated minority in the US or as a demoted minority in Britain.Drawing on rich observations, interviews and archives in London and New York City schools, Wallace suggests that the use of culture to justify Black Caribbean students' achievement obscures the very real ways that school structures, institutional processes, and colonial conditions influence the racial, gender, and class inequalities minority youth experience in schools. Wallace reveals how culture is at times used as an alibi for racism in schools, and points out what educators, parents, and students can do to change the beliefs and practices that reinforce racism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-01-12
Mått156 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197531464
UtmärkelserWinner, Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award, Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association Winner, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Race & Ethnicity, American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Sociology of Children & Youth, American Sociological Association Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Silver Medal, Independent Publishers Best Book Award, Education Commentary & Theory Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Educational Research, Society for the Study of Social Problems Winner, 2024 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists Winner, 2024 PROSE Award, Education Theory and Practice

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Derron Wallace is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education at Brandeis University, and Research Associate at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. He is a cultural sociologist of race, ethnicity, and education. His research and teaching interests are concerned with the analysis and amelioration of structural and cultural inequalities that shape schooling in the United States, Britain, the Caribbean, and around the world.

Acknowledgments reface Introduction: The Power of the Culture Trap Part I: Constructing the Culture Trap 1. Model and Failing Minorities? Divergent Representations of Black Caribbean Achievement 2. Black Caribbean Immigrants and the Legacies of Empire 3. Tracking Structures and Cultures: The Role of Academic 'Ability' Grouping Part II: Negotiating the Culture Trap 4. Distinctiveness and the Secret Life of Social Class in Representations of Culture 5. Deference and the Gendered Rewards of 'Good' Behavior 6. Defiance and Black Students' Resistance to Cultural Racism Conclusion: Dismantling the Culture Trap in Schools Appendix: Organizing Methods for Ethnographic FieldworkNotesAbout the AuthorReferencesIndex

This is an important contribution to our understanding of how discourses and practices of racial representation work to shape and perpetuate ethnic inequalities in our schools. Wallace's comparative ethnography of schools in London and New York offers a unique insight into how ideas of culture and identity are formed historically and politically, and how these are lived by those caught in the trap of ethnic expectations. With a sharp eye for detail and an ear for the voices of young people, teachers, and parents, Wallace breathes new life into an old, and seemingly intractable, problem.