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  • Fryer, Jr. of Harvard University and Paul Torelli suggested that the affect of being labeled an "Uncle Tom" or "acting white" had the greatest impact on both Black and Hispanic students at high achievement levels, as compared to their white classmates.

    Curtis Valentine: American Excellence: Do Labels Like 'Uncle Tom' or 'Acting White' Stifle High Achievement? Curtis Valentine 2011

  • Fryer, Jr. of Harvard University and Paul Torelli suggested that the affect of being labeled an "Uncle Tom" or "acting white" had the greatest impact on both Black and Hispanic students at high achievement levels, as compared to their white classmates.

    Curtis Valentine: American Excellence: Do Labels Like 'Uncle Tom' or 'Acting White' Stifle High Achievement? Curtis Valentine 2011

  • Fryer, Jr. of Harvard University and Paul Torelli suggested that the affect of being labeled an "Uncle Tom" or "acting white" had the greatest impact on both Black and Hispanic students at high achievement levels, as compared to their white classmates.

    Curtis Valentine: American Excellence: Do Labels Like 'Uncle Tom' or 'Acting White' Stifle High Achievement? Curtis Valentine 2011

  • Fryer, Jr. of Harvard University and Paul Torelli suggested that the affect of being labeled an "Uncle Tom" or "acting white" had the greatest impact on both Black and Hispanic students at high achievement levels, as compared to their white classmates.

    Curtis Valentine: American Excellence: Do Labels Like 'Uncle Tom' or 'Acting White' Stifle High Achievement? Curtis Valentine 2011

  • Torelli's undoubted importance in the early history of the concerto has been much distorted by the imposition of later definitions: for Torelli and his contemporaries the title ‘concerto’ carried no automatic implication of solo or even orchestral writing.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • Torelli was an Italian violinist and composer who was born in Verona, 22 April 1658, and died in Bologna, 8 February 1709.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • The stigma attached to "acting white" appears more pronounced in racially mixed environments; in largely black schools it all but disappears, as if the presence of white students is required for minorities to be perceived as — and ostracized for — "acting like" them. — "An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White,'" Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Paul Torelli, Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research

    Primary Sources 2005

  • The stigma attached to "acting white" appears more pronounced in racially mixed environments; in largely black schools it all but disappears, as if the presence of white students is required for minorities to be perceived as — and ostracized for — "acting like" them. — "An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White,'" Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Paul Torelli, Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research

    Primary Sources 2005

  • As you might expect, Fryer and Torelli don't mention IQ.

    Archive 2005-06-05 Steve Sailer 2005

  • Among white teens, Fryer and Torelli found that better grades equaled greater popularity, with straight-A students having far more same-race friends than those who were B students, who in turn had more friends than C or D students.

    Aversion to "Acting White" Worse Problem for Hispanics than Blacks Steve Sailer 2005

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