title: Cultural-Ecological Theory of Academic Disengagement Used to Explain a Story of Race, Culture and Education.
abstract: Students of African ancestry often share an experience of being a racialized minority in the context of the educational institution. Late Professor of Anthropology John Ogbu's Cultural-ecological Theory of Academic Disengagement is employed to describe the negative responses encountered by peers in the name of academic achievement. The late Nigerian-American anthropologist John Ogbu described that it is often socially disadvantageous for black youth to prosper academically in formal education. Black students are often seen as betraying their cultural identities by aspiring to academic success and scholastic achievement and are met with repugnance by black peers. The notion of "acting white" is unnecessary, impertinent should be abandoned outright as achievement should have no color.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, The Skin Care Centre - Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4E8, Canada. Electronic address: b.ogunyemi@mun.ca.
authors.forename: Boluwaji
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ogunyemi
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D002170:Canada; D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D054525:Minority Health / Q000208:ethnology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States
keywords: African American; Diversity; Medical education; Minority health