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This Isn't the America I Thought I'd Find: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School, by Rosemary Traore, Robert J. Lukens
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: University Press of America (May 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761834559
ISBN-13: 978-0761834557
Thousands of African students attend high school in the United States. Most come to gain an education that many of their peers back home can only dream of. They also want to share their experiences as Africans with their American schoolmates. But an American researcher says some of these students have been frustrated in their efforts to reach their goals, in part because of negative stereotypes about Africa in American schools and the media. Educator and writer Rosemary Traore says negative ideas held by American students about Africa often make it difficult for African students, “whether immigrants or refugees, to accomplish their goals of getting a quality education.”
Traore researched and co-wrote a book about the experiences of African students in an urban Philadelphia high school with a large number of African-American students. The book is called This Isn't the America I Thought I'd Find: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School. She says that the title of the book "came from a student as a direct quote from a student in a Philadelphia high school" , that she shadowed along with other students.She adds that the African students " were definitely having a hard time. There was harassing, teasing and name calling….”
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