RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Deficit Difference, and Bicultural Models of Afro-American Behavior
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 137
OP 157
DO 10.17763/haer.41.2.n141n3g84145506m
VO 41
IS 2
A1 Valentine, Charles
YR 1971
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/41/2/137.abstract
AB The author presents arguments against the prevailing models for describing and analyzing Afro-American culture. He rejects not only the biological and culturaldeficit models, but also presents evidence against the more recent cultural difference and culture-of-poverty models. He sees the latter models as incorrect,and also as harmful if used as a basis for new educational policies and programs. In their place, as a result of on-going field study and his several previous research projects in this area, Mr. Valentine proposes a bicultural educational model, recognizing that many blacks are simultaneously committed to both Black culture and mainstream culture, and that the two are not mutually exclusive as generally assumed.