John Ogbu, a Nigerian-American anthropologist, conducted research on this subject. And no one was able to replicate his findings. Even Roland Fryer, who is a p

John Ogbu, a Nigerian-American anthropologist, conducted research on this subject. And no one was able to replicate his findings. Even Roland Fryer, who is a proponent of the "acting white" theory concluded "We, like Ferguson (2001), Cook and Ludwig (1997), and Ainsworth-Darnell and Downey (1998), find scant empirical support for the oppositional culture hypothesis described in Fordham and Ogbu" in http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/Empiriccal%2Banalysis%2Bof%2B%2527acting%2Bwhite%2527_final%2Bmanuscript.pdf http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/Empiric...