Brown and black in white: The social adjustment and academic performance of Chicano and black students in a predominately white university

This article explores the academic and social experiences of Chicago and black students at UCLA. The analysis proceeds by examining differences in social backgrounds, high school and college experiences, and explores the relationship between these factors and college adjustment and achievement (GPA). Drawing upon recent theory on class reproduction and schooling we show particular concern with the role of social class in explaining differential outcomes. The findings indicate that blacks are more likely than Chicanos to feel alienated and perform poorly, and that social class makes no difference in these outcomes for blacks. However, middle class Chicanos perform better and are better adjusted than working class Chicanos. We discuss our findings in the light of theories of class reproduction, cultural capital, and racial signaling, suggesting that theories of reproduction must acknowledge the role of race in unequal school outcomes.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43870/1/11256_2005_Article_BF01141631.pd

Heritage Matters- Fall 2010

In this Issue: Black History in Pennsylvania: Communities in Common NPS Hispanic Outreach in the Southwest Traveling Highway 17 in Search of the Soul of the Gullah “Preserving Asian Pacific Islander America: Mobilizing Our Communities”: The First National Asian Pacific Islander American Historic Preservation Forum National Register Nominations The Southwest Georgia Civil Rights Movement: The Historical Impact and the Celebration of its 50th Anniversary The Franklin School and Sumner School: DC’s Sentinels at a Time of Chang

Transient crystalline superlattice generated by a photoacoustic transducer

Designing an efficient and simple method for modulating the intensity of x-ray radiation on a picosecond time-scale has the potential to produce ultrafast pulses of hard x-rays. In this work, we generate a tunable transient superlattice, in an otherwise perfect crystal, by photoexciting a metal film on a crystalline substrate. The resulting transient strain has amplitudes approaching 1%, wavevectors greater than 0.002   Å − 1 , and lifetimes approaching 1 ns. This method has the potential to generate isolated picosecond x-ray bursts with scattering efficiencies in excess of 10%