Crosses to Bear and Promises to Keep: The Jubilee Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

Autor/in	Anderson, James D.
Titel	Crosses to Bear and Promises to Keep: The Jubilee Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 39 (2004) 4, S.359-373 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085904265150
Schlagwörter	Cultural Influences; Equal Education; African American Culture; African American Students; Racial Discrimination; School Desegregation; Court Litigation; Academic Achievement; Expectation; Stereotypes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Racial bias; Rassismus; Integrative Schule; Rechtsstreit; Schulleistung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Klischee
Abstract	This article examines a decade or more of scholarly and popular writings that blame the persistence of racial inequality in educational performance primarily, if not exclusively, on the cultural inheritance of African Americans. This article focuses in part on the ways in which contemporary rationales for educational inequality are linked to a legacy of blaming racial subordination on African American personality traits and cultural norms. Furthermore, this legacy of "victim blaming" and its distortions of the African American past are considered in the context of the historical scholarship on education and cultural values in the African American experience. Finally, this article shows how unfounded assumptions about African American culture lead to day-to-day contempt and pity for the intellect and character of African American schoolchildren, giving them a heavy cross to bear on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10