Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement among African American Youth

As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school.

Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurric...