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This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of black self-concept, and captures the complex interplay between black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology and their resistance to the powerful structural forces operating within the school. It offers practical suggestions for working constructively with racial and ethnic subcultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Black Cultural Forms in Schools
Black Cultural Forms in Schools
Schools as Arenas of Conflict
Theories of Resistance and Cultural Inversion
The Canadian Encounter
2. Black Life and Schooling in Canada
Black Life Before the West Indians
Black Schooling
Enter the West Indians
West Indians in Toronto
West Indian Children in Toronto Schools
West Indian Subcultures in Toronto Schools
The Community and the School
Lumberville High: Its Programs and Students
3. The Jocks at Lumberville
Group Formation and Membership
"Language is Unity, Identity, and Power"
Dress Style: From "Army Digs" to "Fashion Dreads"
Breaking School Rules
Gym and Playground: The Jocks' Domain
Corridor and Hallway Behaviors
Wall Dancing: Culture or Subculture?
Booze, Herbs, and Soun' Sessions
Summary and Conclusion
4. Authority, Whites, and Women
Authority and Power
Black, Brown, and White
How Boys Dominate Females
Summary and Conclusion
5. Sport as Work
The Sport Subculture
Agents of Sport Socialization
Work: Life after Sport
Summary and Conclusion
6. The School: Contribution to Separatism
The Sorting Machine
Trapped in a "Dummy" School
"Escape from Lumberdump"
How Staff Rule
Rewards as Control
Summary and Conclusion
7. When Structure and Culture Collide: The Outcome of Schooling
The Reproductive Effects of Tracking
School Hopping and Sports: Liberating or Reproductive?
When Structure and Culture Collide
Race and Resistance: An Expanded Model
Implications for Blacks in Canada
The Next Generation of Culture and Struggle
8. Strategies for Change
Working with Black Resistance
Black Subculture: From Opposition to Conciliation
Tracking Revisited
School-to-Work Transition
School-Community Relations
Out of the Gym and Back to the Classroom
Toward a Framework for Race Equity in Education
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index