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social science subjects > sociology > sociology of education > education and social inequality: race and ethnicity > noncompliant believers, cultural mainstreamers, and cultural straddlers
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noncompliant believers, cultural mainstreamers, and cultural straddlers  

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  • In her book, Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, sociologist Prudence Carter introduced three main concepts to characterize how low-income African American and Latino students manage their identities, cultural styles, and educational beliefs. Contending with conventional cultural depictions of low-income, minority youth in the sociology of education literature, Carter posits that students can vary ideologically in terms of how they deploy their social identities to engage in schools. [Source: Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide; Noncompliant Believers, Cultural Mainstreamers, and Cultural Straddlers]

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