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College Aspirations among Low‐Income African American High School Students: Gendered Strategies for Success
Author(s) -
Hubbard Lea
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.3.363
Subject(s) - ethnic group , low income , sociology , academic achievement , class (philosophy) , gender studies , african american , economic growth , pedagogy , socioeconomics , economics , ethnology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , computer science
This study examines the gender‐specific strategies that 30 African American high school youths developed to remain academically successful and traces their success to participation in an educational reform program, the culture of their families, and the culture of the low‐income communities in which they lived. One learns the benefit of examining the interrelatedness of ethnicity, class, and gender when attempting to understand the ways in which academic success is constructed.