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Mathematics success and failure among African-American youth by Danny Bernard Martin

No matter how mathematics achievement and persistence are measured, African Americans seem to lag behind their peers. This state of affairs is typically explained in terms of student ability, family background, differential treatment by teachers, and biased curricula. But what can explain disproportionately poor performance and persistence of African-American students who clearly possess the ability to do well, who come from varied family and socioeconomic backgrounds, who are taught by caring and concerned teachers, and who learn mathematics in the context of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum? And, why do some African-American students succeed in mathematics when underachievement is the norm among their fellow students? Danny Martin addresses these questions in Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth, the results of a year-long ethnographic and observational study of African-American students and their parents and teachers. -- Cover


The Black Scholar (request this issue at the Circulation Desk until bound)

WINTER 2006
Volume 36, No. 4

HURRICANE KATRINA
Contents
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Introduction to The Black Scholar Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: High Tide of a New Racial Formation / Guest Editor, SUNDIATA KEITA CHA-JUA
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The Wretched of the Gulf: Racism, Technological Dramas, and Black Politics of Technology / RAYVON FOUCHE
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Post-Katrina Housing: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for African-Americans in New Orleans / LISA K. BATES
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“Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”: Race, Class, and Attributions of Responsibility in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / BRENDESHA TYNES, CARLA HUNTER, HELEN A. NEVILLE, M. NICOLE COLEMAN
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Natural Versus Social Phenomena: Cuba and the Lessons of Katrina / AUGUST NIMITZ
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Katrina 101: A Black Studies Curriculum Challenge / ABDUL ALKALIMAT