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John Ogbu

Anthropology

#257

World Rank

#369

Historical Rank

#142

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#53

World Rank

#71

Historical Rank

#32

USA Rank

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John Ogbu

Sociology

#1258

World Rank

#1439

Historical Rank

#486

USA Rank

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John Ogbu's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, John Uzo Ogbu was a Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor known for his theories on observed phenomena involving race and intelligence, especially how race and ethnic differences played out in educational and economic achievement. He suggested that being a "caste-like minority" affects motivation and achievement, depressing IQ scores. He also concluded that some students did poorly because high achievement was considered "acting white" among their peers. Ogbu was also involved in the 1996 controversy surrounding the use of African American Vernacular English in public schools in Oakland, California. The 2000 book Eminent Educators: Studies in Intellectual Influence focused on him as one of "four intellectual giants of the 20th century."

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John Ogbu's Published Works

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Black students' school success: Coping with the “burden of ‘acting white’” (1986) (3498)
Minority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (1978) (1285)
Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural‐Ecological Theory of School Performance with Some Implications for Education (1998) (1282)
Understanding Cultural Diversity and Learning (1992) (1257)
Variability in Minority School Performance: A Problem in Search of an Explanation (1987) (1203)
Origins of Human Competence: A Cultural-Ecological Perspective. (1981) (833)
Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities (1991) (706)
Collective Identity and the Burden of “Acting White” in Black History, Community, and Education (2004) (582)
The next generation;: An ethnography of education in an urban neighborhood (1974) (468)
Minority Education And Caste (1978) (456)
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement. A Volume in the Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education Series. (2003) (399)
Cultural Discontinuities and Schooling (1982) (391)
: Family Life and School Achievement: Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail (1984) (381)
Minority Education in Comparative Perspective (1990) (324)
Minority coping responses and school experience. (1991) (284)
Minority Status and Schooling in Plural Societies (1983) (277)
Differences in Cultural Frame of Reference (1993) (257)
Adaptation to minority status and impact on school success (1992) (233)
Beyond Language: Ebonics, Proper English, and Identity in a Black-American Speech Community (1999) (201)
School Ethnography: A Multilevel Approach1 (1981) (182)
Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists (1994) (179)
Cultural diversity and human development (1988) (155)
Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, & Schooling (2008) (153)
Cultural problems in minority education: Their interpretations and consequences—Part one: Theoretical background (1995) (152)
From cultural differences to differences in cultural frame of reference. (1994) (133)
Cultural problems in minority education: Their interpretations and consequences—Part two: Case studies (1995) (130)
Research Currents: Cultural-Ecological Influences on Minority School Learning. (1985) (77)
Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb (2003) (61)
Understanding the school performance of urban Blacks: Some essential background knowledge. (1997) (58)
Cultural psychology: Cultural mode, identity, and literacy (1990) (50)
Seasonal Hunger in Tropical Africa as a Cultural Phenomenon (1973) (50)
Overcoming racial barriers to equal access. (1990) (43)
African bridewealth and women's status (1978) (42)
Social Stratification and the Socialization of Competence (1979) (39)
Cultural amplifiers of intelligence: IQ and minority status in cross-cultural perspective. (2002) (37)
Racial Stratification and Education: The Case of Stockton, California. (1977) (34)
African American Education: A Cultural-Ecological Perspective (2007) (33)
Mentoring Minority Youth: A Framework. (1990) (28)
Understanding Diversity (1990) (26)
Cultural Models of School Achievement: A Quantitative Test of Ogbu's Theory. Cultural Models of Literacy: A Comparative Study. Project 12. (1994) (25)
Schooling the inner city (1983) (19)
Origins of human competence: A cultural-ecological approach (1981) (17)
Origins of human competence: A cultural-ecological approach (1981) (17)
Origins of human competence: A cultural-ecological approach (1981) (17)
Schooling in the Ghetto: An Ecological Perspective on Community and Home Influences. (1981) (17)
Introduction: Understanding Cultural Diversity and Learning (1994) (16)
Structural Constraints in School Desegregation (1986) (12)
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (10)
The Next Generation: An Ethnography of Education in an Urban Neighborhood. (1976) (7)
School Desegregation in Racially Stratified Communities—A Problem of Congruence: (1978) (6)
Is America Breaking Apart (2001) (4)
The Education of Minority Groups: An Enquiry into Problems and Practices of Fifteen Countries. Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (1986) (4)
INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL : EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN STOCKTON , CALIFORNIA , AND GWEMBE , ZAMBIA (2006) (2)
Applied Anthropology: The World Crisis in Education: The View from the Eighties. Philip H. Coombs (1986) (1)
Family Life and School Achievement: Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail. Reginald M. Clark (1984) (1)
Development of Interracial Peer Relations. (1984) (0)
Social Stratification in the United States (1987) (0)
Communicating with Quotes: The Igbo Case. JOYCE PENFIELD (1984) (0)
Book Review. "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement.". (2002) (0)
Social Structure and Cognitive Behavior: A Critique of the Heredity-Environment Hypothesis and an Alternative Interpretation of Black-White Differences in IQ. (1974) (0)
1. Caste status and intellectual development (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
Piaget's Theory of Intelligence. Charles J. Brainerd. (1980) (0)
Enhancing the Success of Rural Schooling. (1995) (0)
Enculturation and Education in Shanti Nagar Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed (1984) (0)
Learning to Adapt: Influences,upon the Learning Behavior of Adolescents in a South Texas City (2007) (0)
Economic Transition Among the Poka of Northern Malawi: From Subsistence to Cash Cropping (1978) (0)
Explaining the Academic Gap; Conventional and Alternative Explanations (2003) (0)

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