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.
| Author/creator | Mocombe, Paul C. |
| Other author | Tomlin, Carol. |
| Other author | Showunmi, Victoria. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : University Press of America, Inc., [2016] |
| Description | v, 110 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets 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. Positing that in general the origins of the black/white academic achievement gap in both countries is grounded in what Paul C. Mocombe refers to as a "mismatch of linguistic structure and social class function." Within this structural Marxist theoretical framework the intra-racial gender academic achievement gap between black boys and girls, the authors argue, is a result of the social class functions associated with industries (mode of production) and ideological apparatuses, i.e., prisons, the urban street life, athletics and entertainment, where the majority of urban black males in the US and UK achieve their status, social mobility, and economic gain, and the black church/education where black females in both countries are overwhelmingly more likely to achieve their status, social mobility, and drive for economic gain via education and professionalization."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-104) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015942210 |
| ISBN | 9780761866190 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0761866191 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic) |
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