{"id":41703,"date":"2010-06-25T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2010-06-25T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:31:55","slug":"acting-white-the-ironic-legacy-of-desegregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=41703","title":{"rendered":"Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/book\/review\/guilt-trip\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2000, in a book called Losing the Race, I argued that much of the reason for the gap between the grades and test scores of black students and white students was that black teens often equated doing well in school with \u201cacting white.\u201d I knew that a book which did not focus on racism\u2019s role in this problem would attract bitter criticism. I was hardly surprised to be called a \u201csell-out\u201d and \u201cnot really black\u201d because I grew up middle class and thus had no understanding of black culture. But one of the few criticisms that I had not anticipated was that the \u201cacting white\u201d slam did not even exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Stuart Buck at last brings together all of the relevant evidence and  puts paid to two myths. The first is that the \u201cacting white\u201d charge is  a\u00a0fiction or just pointless marginal static. The other slain myth,  equally important, is that black kids reject school as alien out of some  sort of ingrained stupidity; the fear of this conclusion lies at the  root of the studious dismissal of the issue by so many black thinkers  concerned about black children. Buck conclusively argues that the  phenomenon is a recent and understandable outgrowth of a particular  facet of black people\u2019s unusual social history in America\u2014and that facet  is neither slavery nor Jim Crow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. In 2000, in a book called Losing the Race, I argued that much of the reason for the gap between the grades and test scores of black students and white students was that black teens often equated doing well in school with \u201cacting white.\u201d I knew that a book which did not focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41705,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions\/41705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}