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The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students

Contributors:

By (Author) Kevin O. Cokley

ISBN:

9781440831560

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Praeger Publishers Inc

Publication Date:

11th November 2014

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Ethnic studies
Education

Dewey:

155.8496073

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

160

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

454g

Description

Why do students who belong to racial minority groupsparticularly black studentsfall short in school performance This book provides a comprehensive and critical examination of black identity and its implications for black academic achievement and intellectualism. No other group of students has been more studied, more misunderstood, and more maligned than African American students. The racial gap between White and African American students does exist: a difference of roughly 20 percent in college graduation rates has persisted for more than the past two decades; and since 1988, the racial gap on the reading and mathematics sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has increased from 189 points to 201 points. What are the true sources of these differences In this book, psychology professor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology Kevin Cokley, PhD, delves into and challenges the dominant narrative regarding black student achievement by examining the themes of black identity, the role of self-esteem, the hurdles that result in academic difficulties, and the root sources of academic motivation. He proposes a bold alternate narrative that uses black identity as the theoretical framework to examine factors in academic achievement and challenge the widely accepted notion of black anti-intellectualism. This book will be valuable to all educators, especially those at the high school through undergraduate college/university level, as well as counselors associated with academic and community institutions, social service providers, policy makers, clergy and lay staff within the faith-based community, and parents.

Author Bio

Kevin O. Cokley, PhD, is professor of educational psychology and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology.

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