Delighted that my book, THE CULTURE TRAP, has been published by @OxUniPress! This ethnography centers and celebrates Black youth in London and NYC schools, and shows that the use of culture to explain Black students' success or failure in schools is not only tricky; it is a trap!
This is such good reporting from the @harvardcrimeson:
There are about 27,000 high schools in the U.S.
Over the past 15 years, 1 in 11 students at Harvard have come from just 21 high schools.
So 9.1% of Harvard students come from 0.07% of US schools. @nytdavidbrooks
Dear friends, help me celebrate the first publication of my mentee @ZoraHaque in @ERSjournal! She is now @hgse, and is already a shining star. So excited to see all Zora will do for the field of race and education, and for families and young people! Way to go, Zora! Wooohoo!!!🥳
My first #NewPubAlert! This project began when I was still a Master’s student so it’s truly surreal to see the end result, and the gratitude I hold for @DerronWallace as my mentor and co-author simply can’t be expressed within 280 characters.
https://t.co/8NY79RTvbE
scholar A gets rejected from top journal. A noticed scholar B was recently published in same journal. A is 😡 and rationalizes racial resentment behind methodology. A wants to speak to the manager of sociology. A will insist this has nothing to do with “race.” A+B=C. Solve for C.
Book Review Symposium📚
“[The Culture Trap] challenges the idea that ‘culture’ can account for differential outcomes in education, by uncovering the assumptions associated with race in [education systems].”
Read @DrDaveOBrien’s review below.
https://t.co/Inigb74pjT
Book Review Symposium📚
Stephen D Ashe asks ‘what can we learn from The Culture Trap in terms of how we go about doing ethnographic cultural sociology?” in his review below.
https://t.co/FdjdSbr43z
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to former Dean Gary Henry for this honor, as well as to my @UDCEHD community and all my local school partners for their ongoing support & collaboration. Jessica Henderson wrote this marvelously, so thank u too!
https://t.co/MV4p13BkWg
Must read piece from @haitiharlem
‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US | US farm workers | The Guardian https://t.co/evCoA8LLYZ
JD Vance blamed school shootings on Mexican immigrants bringing in guns and then changed the subject to gun violence in big urban cities (black folks). The one issue that is almost singularly about white men gets blamed on people of color.
This exchange should be studied for a long time. The interviewer read the book, not to gain new insight, but to get angry that it wasn't written from the perspective he preferred. He expected Coates to crumble under his onslaught. But Coates didn't. That's what makes it powerful.