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Arnold, Faye W. – Urban Review, 1993
Using interview data from 42 working, lower- and underclass African-American female college students, this article challenges the primacy of the cultural argument that educational failure of African-American women is primarily the result of their adherence to oppositional cultural forms and a preindustrial sense of time that inhibits success in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged