High School Students of Color Talk About Accusations of “Acting White”
By David A. Bergin, Helen C. Cooks. 2002
147 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- David Stinson
- Dorinda J. Carter Andrews
- David A. Bergin
- J. Kerpelman
- Rochelle Gutiérrez
- Ebony O. McGee
- Niral Shah
- D. Martin
Citations in the corpus
- Social Influences on Interest (2016, background): “If students are accused of acting White for doing things like skateboarding, listening to heavy metal music, or taking high-level math and science courses (D. A. Bergin & Cooks, 2002; Fordham, 1996), their interests can be reduced for those topics.”
- African American Adolescents’ Future Education Orientation: Associations with Self-efficacy, Ethnic Identity, and Perceived Parental Support (2008, background): “Bergin and Cooks (2002) found for a sample of high achieving minority high school students that these students did not feel compelled to sacrifice their ethnic identity in order to do well academically, nor did they feel it was necessary to alter their achievement even when accused by peers of ‘‘ac”
- African American Male Adolescents, Schooling (and Mathematics): Deficiency, Rejection, and Achievement (2006, background): “Nevertheless, despite that Africans and the African slavery experience were woven into the fabric that constituted the new American republic and that Africans moved from American slaves to African American U.S. citizens, making significant contributions to the development of the nation along the way”
- Black Achievers’ Experiences with Racial Spotlighting and Ignoring in a Predominantly White High School (2012, background): “The literature is expansive on the experiences of low- and high-achieving Black students in U.S. schools (Bergin & Cooks, 2002; P. Carter, 2003; Fordham, 1988; Fordham & Ogbu, 1986; Gayles, 2005; Hemmings, 1996; Mehan et al., 1994; Milner, 2002; Oakes, 1985; O’Connor, 1997; Rist, 1970; Wiggan,…”