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Flashman, Jennifer. "Are Black Students Punished for "Acting White"?: Race, Academic Achievement, and Friendship Choices" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242144_index.html>

Flashman, J. , 2008-07-31 "Are Black Students Punished for "Acting White"?: Race, Academic Achievement, and Friendship Choices" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242144_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Many believe that black under-achievement results from a burden of �acting white�. Although previous research attempts to establish this burden, these studies confound adolescents� opportunities for friendship with their friendship choices. In this paper, I model adolescents� friendship group choices. Using data from Add Health and discrete-choice analysis, I estimate the effect of racial and academic friendship group composition on individuals� probabilities of choosing friendship groups. I further show how individuals� race and academic achievement interact with friendship group characteristics to affect their friendship choices. I find that high and non-high-achieving blacks have similarly high probabilities of choosing friendship groups with a majority of black students, and that high-achieving black students prefer high-achieving friendship groups while non-high-achieving blacks are equally likely to choose high- and low-high-achieving friendship groups. These results support the conclusion that high-achieving black students are rejecting their non-high-achieving black peers, rather than the other way around as the �acting white� hypothesis suggests.

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