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Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown (1st Edition) by Karolyn Tyson (Editor), Associate Professor Karolyn Tyson, Mark A. Noll Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-10: 0-19-973645-6 / 0199736456 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-973645-4 / 9780199736454 There is lots of popular and scholarly concern today about why black students aren't doing better in school. The most popular explanation, the "acting white" thesis, is that they have a culture that rejects achievement―that students' peer cultures hold them back. As Karolyn Tyson convincingly demon |