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TAPPED post on the book

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

At TAPPED (the blog of The American Prospect), Jamelle Bouie has a post disagreeing with my book. He says: By and large, this exchange is almost entirely anecdotal; if you set aside personal childhood memories, there simply isn't much broad empirical evidence for the claim that black students in integrated settings have a racialized antipathy toward educational achievement. There's a lot more evidence for "acting white" than personal childhood memories. Out of the many studies on the issue, the best is Roland Fryer's empirical study of a nationally representative database in which students had been asked (among other things) to list out a certain number of friends. It turned out that after controlling for other variables that affect popularity, black students above a 3...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).