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Signithia Fordham

Anthropology

#1152

World Rank

#1522

Historical Rank

#561

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#106

World Rank

#137

Historical Rank

#62

USA Rank

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Signithia Fordham

Sociology

#2362

World Rank

#2626

Historical Rank

#763

USA Rank

sociology Degrees

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Anthropology
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Signithia Fordham's Degrees

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

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Why Is Signithia Fordham Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Signithia Fordham is a prominent Anthropologist who studies how race influences Black students in the classroom. She began her career working with John Ogbu on their research "Acting White" and has done similar research since. Most of her research is done in the DC area, which she gives the pseudonym Capital High.

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Signithia Fordham's Published Works

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Black students' school success: Coping with the “burden of ‘acting white’” (1986) (3498)
Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success: Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory? (1988) (840)
“Those Loud Black Girls”: (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender “Passing” in the Academy (1993) (458)
Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High (1996) (457)
Dissin' “the Standard”: Ebonics as Guerrilla Warfare at Capital High (1999) (102)
Beyond Capital High: On dual citizenship and the strange career of "acting White." (2008) (77)
Write‐Ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin we are in (2009) (56)
Racelessness in Private Schools: Should We Deconstruct the Racial and Cultural Identity of African-American Adolescents? (1991) (37)
Passin' for Black: Race, Identity, and Bone Memory in Postracial America (2010) (17)
“Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That”: John Ogbu (and Me) and the Nine Lives Peoples (2004) (15)
Black students' school success as related to fictive kinship : a study in the Washington, D.C., Public School System (1987) (7)
Rejoinder to A. A. Akom's Comment on Fordham's “Strange Career of ‘Acting White’ ” (2008) (5)
Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling (2016) (2)
The Politics of Racial Identity: A Pedagogy of Invisibility@@@Blacked out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High@@@Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth@@@Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader (1998) (1)
1996 Anthony Leeds Award (1996) (0)
Sexism by Women—Against Other Women (2019) (0)
My Love Affair With My Arrogant Hair (2007) (0)
SOCIETY FOR URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY (1996) (0)
“ No Means I Love You” (2019) (0)

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