The Burden of “Acting White”: Do Black Adolescents Disparage Academic Achievement?

By P. J. Cook, Jens Ludwig. 2008

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Exploring Challenges That Threaten to Impede the Academic Success of Academically Underprepared Black Males at an HBCU (2009, result): “Several researchers have raised criticism about “acting White” among Blacks (Cook & Ludwig, 1998; Harper, 2006a; Tyson, Darity, & Castellino, 2005).”
The "Receivement Gap": School Tracking Policies and the Fallacy of the "Achievement Gap" (2009, background): “…landmark collection of essays, which covers such possible contributions to the gap as "stereotype threat" (Steele & Aronson, 1998) and the burdens of "acting White" (Cook & Ludwig, 1998) to racial bias (Jencks, 1998) and family background (Phillips, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, Klebanov, & Crane, 1998).”
School Crime Control and Prevention (2010, background): “…evidence does not support the claim that a racialized “oppositional culture” is commonplace, it is plausible that peer pressure against being “nerdy” and working hard in school influences the academic achievement of youths in general (Cook and Ludwig 1997, 1998; Tyson, Darity, and Castellino 2005).”
Peer Support for African American Male College Achievement: Beyond Internalized Racism and the Burden of “Acting White” (2006, background): “Furthermore, many high-achievers have positive self-esteem, high goal orientations, and strong Black identities (Ainsworth-Darnell & Downey, 1998; Cook & Ludwig, 1998; Ferguson, 2001; Spencer, Noll, Stolzfus, & Harpalani, 2001).”