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Converts by the numbers
The whiteness of being a nerd
In a 2001 paper, “The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness,” and other works, including a book in progress, Bucholtz notes that the “hegemonic” “cool white” kids use a limited amount of African-American vernacular English; they may say “blood” in lieu of “friend,” or drop the “g” in “playing.”
Is the US heading for ‘Developing Nations’ Inequity?
America’s super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring Twenties. As the rest of the country struggles to get by, a huge bubble of multi-millionaires lives almost in a parallel world. The rich now live in their own world of private education, private health care and gated mansions. They have their own schools and their own banks. They even travel apart — creating a booming industry of private jets and yachts. Their world now has a name, thanks to a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank which has dubbed it “Richistan.”
A Butler can make six figures these days
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I wish they would have research how many converts come from the penal system.
“On the other hand, the code of conspicuous intellectualism in the nerd cliques Bucholtz observed may shut out “black students who chose not to openly display their abilities.” This is especially disturbing at a time when African-American students can be stigmatized by other African-American students if they’re too obviously diligent about school. ”
This one hit close to home.
Carlito, surely a lot of the women who converted didn’t come from the penal system. What is the breakdown on the gender of converts?
Yeah the nerd article hit close to home for me too. I’m in a graduate program at a prestigious research institution. Funny how the socially awkward can make a person of color feel really excluded. Who says they recounced white privilege? They run the sciences, and even the humanities, both are hyper white.
Even though many of the students I have studied with and taught have one or both parents who have degrees and even advanced degrees, significant portion of AA students are first generation college students. One of the things that educated African Americans learn is how to put on different masks in different social environments. It’s called code switching. In truth, most AA student have more social skills and can operate in different social and class environments. That is because we have to. But in the academy it can really work against you. You’re supposed to be unattractive, unstylish, have poor hygeine and terribly awkward social skills in order to be really smart. Otherwise, your peers often assume you are not as smart them. That’s the problem that I have with sub-cultures. While they do not conform to the dominant norms, they still impose so much conformity in their sub groups.
Yup, close to home here too
talk about a black sheep,
About to enter a graduate program, whereas most of the childhood friends barely if at all got out of high school. Had to bite my tongue a lot around them, watered myself down.
Too athletic to be a nerd.
Too academic to be a jock
When with my hood friends, hid my intelligence, however, when with the socially challenge friends, yea ok I mean nerd friends, I had no problem showing how hood I was.
Constant “Code switching”
If a butler can make six figures leaving aside perks, why bother going to university?