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Peer reviewedGinwright, Shawn A. – Urban Review, 2000
Examined the interaction of social class and racial identity in urban school reform. Presents a case study of reform at one urban California high school which used an Afrocentric curriculum to help improve academic performance, arguing that the effort was ineffective because it failed to consider ways in which poverty influenced the identities of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, African Culture, African History, African Studies
