Anthropology Professor John Ogbu Dies at Age 64
In Appreciation
Dr. John Uzo Ogbu, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a path-breaking scholar in the fields of minority education and identity, died of a heart attack after undergoing back surgery on Aug. 20. He was 64.
Ogbu is known for his work that attempted to understand how race and ethnic differences played out in educational and economic achievement. He stirred controversy in 1986 when he co-authored a study that concluded African American students in a Washington, D.C., high school didn't live up to their academic potential because of the fear of being accused of "acting White."
His most recent book, Black American …
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Article title: Anthropology Professor John Ogbu Dies at Age 64.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: Black Issues in Higher Education.
Volume: 20.
Issue: 15
Publication date: September 11, 2003.
Page number: 16.
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