Family (Dis)Advantage and the Educational Prospects of Better Off African American Youth: How Race Still Matters

Autor/inn/en	Gosa, Travis L.; Alexander, Karl L.
Titel	Family (Dis)Advantage and the Educational Prospects of Better Off African American Youth: How Race Still Matters
Quelle	In: Teachers College Record, 109 (2007) 2, S.285-321 (37 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-9620
Schlagwörter	African American Students; Family Life; African American Family; Family Environment; Youth; Barriers; Achievement Gap; Middle Class; Social Environment; Racial Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Familienmilieu; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Mittelschicht; Soziales Umfeld
Abstract	While the educational difficulties of poor black students are well documented and have been discussed extensively, the academic performance of well-off African American children has received much less attention. Even with economic and educational resources in the home, well-off African American youth are not achieving at the levels of their white peers. Why is this? A review of relevant literature identifies a set of social processes that pose formidable barriers to the academic and personal development of middle-class African American youth, the closing of the black-white achievement gap, and the preservation of African American family advantage across generations. Constituting a social ecology of African American family life, these processes emanate outward from the immediate home environment, through peers and friends, into neighborhoods and schools, and to society at large. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10