A social network analysis of acting white: A case study of Somali immigrant working-class adolescents

Using social network and interview data, this case study illuminates why acting White is not applied to a predominantly Somali African American school in the U.S. Specifically, this case study shows that high-achieving Somali working-class students were not isolated from their peer networks in their school. Furthermore, this study suggests that Acting White may be not applicable to schools where schools are structurally small-sized, culturally college-bound, and ethnically-homogenous.