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Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, this book offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Title Jesus and the streets : the loci of causality for the intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in black urban America and the United Kingdom / Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, and Victoria Showunmi.
Publisher Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc.
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction -- Background and theorizing about the Black intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States and United Kingdom -- Theory and method -- Subject constitution and interpellation within Mocombe's structural Marxism -- Black subject constitution and interpellation in the US and UK within Mocombe's structural Marxism -- Jesus and the streets.
Extent 1 online resource (118 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997011504818405171
MARC RECORDS
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