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...Acting white’ very well may explain the lack of minority students in elite colleges and universities,” Fryer said...
...Fryer said that, in one important way, the study undermines conventional wisdom on the phenomenon...
African-American students in schools with high interracial contact may feel greater social pressure to sacrifice their grades in order to maintain popularity than students in predominantly African-American schools, according to a paper published last month by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. and graduate student Paul Torelli...
...Fryer and Torelli also found that while African Americans are often suspected of suffering the most from “acting white,” Hispanic students often face even more social pressure to underperform in class than do black students...
...thought we knew that ‘acting white’ happened in all-black schools in urban neighborhoods. I think we had the facts entirely backwards,” Fryer, who is a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said in an interview...