SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Yonkers, New York, Code-Switching, Jargon
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In-depth study of 68 hs students in yonkers, ny. Yonkers is a place where over time more and more black and brown families moved in while white families moved out. 100+ hours of in-depth interviews and observations. Carter interested in how students handle the. Main point of book: examine how students handle how institutional, cultural and personal issues forces affect their school attachment through a critical focus on 4 issues/phenomena: Not all groups get to define knowledge or what it means to be intelligent. The dominant white race gets to define what it means to be intelligent. Challenges idea that minority student under/low achievement is a reaction to white/middle-class dominant culture. Differences in engagement and attachment are connected to ideologies about how in-group members should respond to social inequality and how they should respect in group boundaries. Cultural explanations for black and latino achievement ignore the intersection between ethnicity, culture and gender.
