"Acting White": The Social Price Paid by the Best and Brightest Minority Students

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Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap. NBER Working Paper No. 14211. (2008, unknown): “11 See, for example, Fordham and Ogbu (1986), Cook and Ludwig (1997), McWhorter (2000), Ogbu (2003), Austen-Smith and Fryer (2005), Fryer (2006).”
‘I was the special ed. girl’: urban working‐class young women of colour (2010, background): “Several participants also talked about ‘acting White’, which usually refers to situations where minority adolescents are ridiculed for ‘engaging in behaviours perceived to be characteristic of whites’ (Fryer 2006, 54).”
Seeing the Destination AND the Path: Using Identity‐Based Motivation to Understand and Reduce Racial Disparities in Academic Achievement (2017, background): “Hence, the question should not be framed as whether minority students incorporate academics into their racial–ethnic identities (Fryer, 2006; Ogbu, 2004) or whether they have academically focused possible identities.”