Signithia Fordham

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Signithia Fordham is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Signithia Fordham has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Education and 2 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Signithia Fordham's work include Critical Race Theory in Education (4 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (2 papers) and Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 papers). Signithia Fordham is often cited by papers focused on Critical Race Theory in Education (4 papers), Parental Involvement in Education (2 papers) and Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 papers). Signithia Fordham collaborates with scholars based in United States and Netherlands. Signithia Fordham's co-authors include John U. Ogbu, Stephanie Urso Spina, Robert H. Tai, Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review and Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education.

In The Last Decade

Signithia Fordham

16 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white??

1986 2.1k citations Signithia Fordham, John U. Ogbu The Urban Review profile →
Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success: Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory?

1988 517 citations Signithia Fordham Harvard Educational Review profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Signithia Fordham United States	9	2.6k	2.3k	485	400	290	18	3.9k
H. Richard Milner United States	36	4.2k 1.6×	2.9k 1.2×	496 1.0×	387 1.0×	239 0.8×	87	5.2k
William F. Tate United States	22	3.9k 1.5×	3.0k 1.3×	418 0.9×	353 0.9×	222 0.8×	50	4.9k
Lisa Delpit United States	12	5.1k 2.0×	2.5k 1.1×	317 0.7×	281 0.7×	792 2.7×	21	6.5k
Geneva Gay United States	22	3.5k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	256 0.5×	308 0.8×	360 1.2×	38	4.3k
Ricardo D. Stanton‐Salazar United States	10	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	486 1.0×	361 0.9×	351 1.2×	10	3.4k
Tyrone C. Howard United States	28	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	313 0.6×	303 0.8×	101 0.3×	54	3.1k
Samuel D. Museus United States	29	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	419 0.9×	634 1.6×	64 0.2×	106	2.9k
Patricia Gándara United States	32	2.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	358 0.7×	315 0.8×	1.2k 4.1×	106	3.9k
Lala Carr Steelman United States	29	1.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	303 0.6×	199 0.5×	65 0.2×	53	2.8k
Carl A. Grant United States	30	3.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	144 0.3×	210 0.5×	261 0.9×	125	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Signithia Fordham

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All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

Fordham, Signithia. (2016). Downed By Friendly Fire. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (2016). Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 2 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (2010). Passin' for Black: Race, Identity, and Bone Memory in Postracial America. Harvard Educational Review. 80(1). 4–30. 10 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (2008). Rejoinder to A. A. Akom's Comment on Fordham's “Strange Career of ‘Acting White’ ”. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 39(3). 266–269. 4 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (2008). Beyond Capital High: On Dual Citizenship and the Strange Career of “Acting White”. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 39(3). 227–246. 35 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (2007). My Love Affair With My Arrogant Hair. Transforming Anthropology. 15(2). 146–148.

Fordham, Signithia. (2004). “Signithia, You Can Do Better Than That”: John Ogbu (and Me) and the Nine Lives Peoples. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 35(1). 149–161. 8 indexed citations

Fordham, Signithia. (1999). Dissin' “the Standard”: Ebonics as Guerrilla Warfare at Capital High. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 30(3). 272–293. 62 indexed citations

Spina, Stephanie Urso, et al.. (1998). The Politics of Racial Identity: A Pedagogy of Invisibility. Educational Researcher. 27(1). 36–36. 4 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1997). SOCIETY FOR URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY. Anthropology News. 38(1). 40–41. 1 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia, et al.. (1996). Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High.. The Journal of Negro Education. 65(2). 243–243. 451 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1996). SOCIETY FOR URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY. Anthropology News. 37(6). 83–84. 1 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1996). Blacked Out. 417 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1993). “Those Loud Black Girls”: (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender “Passing” in the Academy. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 24(1). 3–32. 290 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1991). Racelessness in Private Schools: Should We Deconstruct the Racial and Cultural Identity of African-American Adolescents?. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 92(3). 470–484. 30 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia. (1988). Racelessness as a Factor in Black Students' School Success: Pragmatic Strategy or Pyrrhic Victory?. Harvard Educational Review. 58(1). 54–85. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fordham, Signithia. (1987). Black students' school success as related to fictive kinship : a study in the Washington, D.C., Public School System. University Microfilms International eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Fordham, Signithia & John U. Ogbu. (1986). Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white??. The Urban Review. 18(3). 176–206. 2100 indexed citations breakdown →

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