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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction: Stalking Culture and Meaning and Looking in a Refracted Mirror
1: Schooling and Imagining the American Dream: Success Alloyed with Failure
2: Becoming a Person: Fictive Kinship as a Theoretical Frame
3: Parenthood, Childrearing, and Female Academic Success
4: Parenthood, Childrearing, and Male Academic Success
5: Teachers and School Officials as Foreign Sages
6: School Success and the Construction of "Otherness"
7: Retaining Humanness: Underachievement and the Struggle to Affirm the Black Self
8: Reclaiming and Expanding Humanness: Overcoming the Integration Ideology
Afterword
Policy Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index