District pays for black-on-black bullies
Two black students bullied for “acting white” by other blacks won a settlement from their South Carolina school district after they charged the school allowed a racially hostile educational...
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Stuart Buck‘s new book, Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation, is out today. While desegregation was the right thing to do, Buck writes, it destroyed schools that had been centers of black...
View Article'Acting white' is no myth
Stuart Buck’s Acting White gets a rave review from John McWhorter in The New Republic. It was the demise of segregation, of all things, that helped pave the way for the “acting white” charge. With the...
View ArticleSuccess for black students
Forty years after her sophomore year at Cleveland’s virtually all-black John F. Kennedy High, Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks got together with her former 10th-grade English teacher, Stuart...
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Acting smart
As a child in Daytona Beach, Florida, Roland G. Fryer Jr. often visited his great-aunt and -uncle’s house, where pancakes were fried in the same pan in which the couple made crack out of water, baking...
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