Cover; Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Postindustrial Pedagogy in America and the United Kingdom; 2 Black American Achievement and Underachievement in America's Postindustrial Economy; 3 Black Underachievement in Postindustrial America: Reevaluating the "Burden of Acting White"; 4 Black British Achievement and Underachievement in Britain's Postindustrial Economy
5 The Writing Performance in English of African Heritage Students in Two Urban Environments: Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica6 Conclusion: Capitalism, Social Class Language Games, and Global Black Underachievement; Notes; References; Index
Summary
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin interpret the role of education as an institutional or ideological apparatus for capitalist domination, and examine the sociolinguistic means or pedagogies by which global and local social actors are educated w