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Peer reviewedFordham, Signithia – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Explores the impact of gender diversity on school achievement, using data from an ethnographic study of academic success among 33 eleventh-grade students in a Washington (DC) high school. The normalized definition of femaleness juxtaposed with a dominating patriarchy propels African-American females to resist images that assert their nothingness.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Ethnography, Females
