Blogger and scholar Stuart Buck has a book on American education coming out this month. Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation describes the history and present reality of peer pressure on black students to underachieve. He reports on studies and articles written over the years that show black students suffer with identify problems in some situations, being accused by their fellow students of “acting white” when they study hard or join certain school clubs.

Rod Dreher of BeliefNet has a three part interview with Stuart starting here, continuing here, and concluding here (these links will help when the navigation on BeliefNet is challenging). I will review Acting White for BwB later this month.