Overview
Here are the questions that need to be answered using the pdf files attached on the article and can be done within 2-3 pages. Thank you so much!
Questions:
1. What are some lingering effects of forced school segregation?
2. How might the concept of intergenerational trauma help us understand racial inequalities today?
3. Why is there so much variation in the educational success rates among Asian American students of different nationalities?
4.
Explain and reflect on the tension some youth face between maintaining cultural authenticity and being perceived as serious
students. To what extent have you observed or experienced this tension personally?
5. How do racial ideologies play a role in reproducing racial inequalities within the school system? Explain how specific ideologies
are connected to inequality.
6. Which explanation for the achievement gap do you find most convincing? Why?
7. To what extent do you think Black children do less well in school than White children to avoid being perceived as "acting White"?
On what empirical basis do you make your arguments?
8. How are social capital and cultural capital important for school success? Reflect on their importance in your own educational
experiences.
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
6.1 What are the dimensions of racial inequality in our educational system?
The United States has a long history of educational inequality. In the early twentieth century, Native American, African
American, and Mexican American children were relegated to separate and inferior schools. Segregation was outlawed in 1954.
yet it has produced lingering effects.
Q
How has educational attainment across racial and ethnic groups changed over time?
Q What are Indian schools, and what were the conditions like in those schools?
Q
On what basis could plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education case argue that schools were not "separate but equal"?
Q Why did it take so long for schools to become integrated after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision?
6.2 How does the legacy of inequality affect contemporary educational opportunities and outcomes?
Asian and White students tend to do better on tests, have higher GAs, and have higher rates of college completion than
African American, Native American, and Latinx students.
Q What is the relationship between school segregation and poverty?
Q Why have schools begun to resegregate since 1991?
6.3 How can we explain continuing racial disparities in educational achievement?
Sociologists offer several explanations for disparate educational outcomes, including oppositional culture, tracking, social and
cultural capital, and hidden curricula.
Q Give examples of the theoretical explanations sociologists offer for the achievement gap.
© What is the difference between social and cultural capital? How are social and cultural capital related to educational
success?