STUDENT VOICE AS AGENCY - RESISTANCE AND ACCOMMODATION IN INNER-CITY SCHOOLS

In this article we describe the results of a comparative case study of two inner-city high schools located in the southeastern United States . One school, a citywide school with high admission standards, enrolls an all-African American lower-to-middle-class population. The other s chool enrolls a more ethnically and racially diverse population of stu dents from a single lower-class neighborhood. Using Grossberg's notion of identity politics, toe describe how students' racial/ethnic identi ty to a greater or lesser degree becomes both a means of resistance an d accommodation to white hegemony.