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1. Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling

   Edited by John U. Ogbu

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   This book is the definitive and final presentation of John Ogbu’s cultural ecological model and the many debates that his work has sparked during the past decade. The theory and empirical foundation of Ogbu’s scholarship, which some have mistakenly reduced to the "acting white hypothesis," is fully...

   Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge
2. Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb

   A Study of Academic Disengagement

   By John U. Ogbu, With the Assist Davis

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years. The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students...

   Published December 31st 2002 by Routledge
3. Minority Status & Schooling Hc

   By Margaret A. Gibson, John U. Ogbu

   First published in 1991...

   Published July 31st 1991 by Garland Science