Black metropolis and mental life: Beyond the "burden of 'acting white'" toward a third wave of critical racial studies

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-265

  Akom, A A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acting white; Black metropolis; Black student achievement; Critical race theory; Critical whiteness studies; Double consciousness; Du Bois; Hip hop; Oppositional identity; Race; Twoness; Youth development

Indexed keywords

EID: 53649090027     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: 15481492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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