Reexamining resistance as oppositional behavior: The Nation of Islam and the creation of a Black achievement ideology (the remix)

Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 190-221

  Akom, A A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203931967     Document Type: Chapter

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