This book explores the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass, and arguing that the social functions of the dominating black consciousness are the locus of causality for the achievement gap.

By Paul C. Mocombe and Carol Tomlin

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Chapter I. Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter II. The "Burden of Acting White" Hypothesis Chapter 4 Chapter III. Factors and Conditions that Affect the Achievenment Levels of High Attaining Black Students: A Case Study of Two Urban Secondary Schools in the UK Chapter 5 Chapter IV. The Effects of the Restructuring of Language in the Inner City Chapter 6 Chapter V. The Dysfuction of "bling bling": Black Consciousness and Black Achievement in the Age of Globalization Chapter 7 References Cited