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BEYOND ASCRIPTION: Racial Identity, Culture, Schools, and Academic Achievement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Prudence L. Carter
Prudence L. Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Harvard University
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Amanda E. Lewis, Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003, 243 pages, ISBN: 0-8135-3225-6, Cloth, $60.00, and Paper, $22.00.

John U. Ogbu, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 320 pages, ISBN: 0-8058-4516-X, Cloth, $69.95, Paper, $32.50.

Douglas Massey, Camille Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary Fischer, The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, 283 pages, ISBN: 0-691-11326-2, Cloth, $29.95.

Sarah Susannah Willie, Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race. New York: Routledge Press, 2003, 210 pages, ISBN: 0-415-94410-4, Paper, $22.95.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , September 2004 , pp. 377 - 388
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© 2004 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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