
FreshEd #314 – The Culture Trap (Derron Wallace)
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The Role of Resistance in Black Caribbean Youth
The last cultural logic that you brought up and you write about in your book is this notion of resistance. So the way in which black Caribbean youth resist some of these, let's say ethnic expectations as you call them, how does that play out in these two different contexts? Yeah. And what I found was that black Caribbean's in New York practiced what I called interpersonal defiance. The school wasn't the problem. That teacher don't like me. That teacher is the problem, right? Those are the sort of common quotes I heard from students, right? In London, on the other hand, where students wanted to leave this particular school where they felt as though they were being largely misrepresented
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