More on Acting White
Heather Horn at The Atlantic Wire looks at Stuart Buck’s thesis that an unfortunate and unexpected consequence of school integration was that many black kids associate doing well in school with acting white. So they choose not to achieve.
John McWhorter, Richard Thompson Ford, Gene Denby, Jamelle Bouie, Matthew Yglesias, Megan McArdle and Reihan Salam weigh in. Be sure to check out the video too.
We’ve discussed Buck’s book here and here.
