The Search for Oppositional Culture among Black Students

By D. Downey, James W. Ainsworth-Darnell. American Sociological Review, 2002

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RESULTS PUBLISHED in our 1998 ASR article (Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey 1998, henceforward A-D&D) presented a serious challenge to the oppositional culture explanation for racial/ethnic differences in school performance. It was a surprise to many to learn that black students typically report more optimistic occupational expectations, view education as more important to their future, and maintain more pro-school attitudes than do white students. In our conclusion, we stated our hope that this new evidence would lead to further debate regarding the source of racial/ethnic differences in school performance:

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The Importance of Minority Teachers (2016, methodology): “…research using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) found that teachers perceive Black students as putting in less effort for good grades and as being less attentive in class compared to their White peers (Ainsworth-Darnell & Downey, 1998; Downey & Ainsworth-Darnell, 2002).”
When Race Matters: Teachers' Evaluations of Students' Classroom Behavior (2004, background): “This position has not been persuasive for adolescents, however (see Downey and Ainsworth-Darnell 2002), and it is even less so for 5 year olds.”
Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, how Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know? (2003, unknown): “For interesting examples of the sorts of issues that can be addressed, see Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey (1998), Ferguson (2001), Farkas, Lleras, and Maczuga (2002), Downey and Ainsworth-Darnell (2002), and Bishop et al. (2003).”