Aoge Bu (john Uzo Ogbu) Educational Anthropology Thought

John Uzo Ogbu (1939--2003) was the top anthropology professorof the University of California, Berkeley in USA and also was the most famous anthropologist in the world. He received numerous honors and awards, including: the Society for Applied Anthropology's first Margaret Mead Award (1979); election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980); the American Education Research Association's Distinguished Scholar Award (1985); as well as its Distinguished Contributions to Education Research Award (1998); and election to the National Academy of Education (1990). The University of California, Berkeley, named him Alumni Distinguished Professor in 1989 and Chancellor's Professor in 1997. In 2003, the Council on Anthropology and Education organized a special session around his work and nominated him to receive its highest honor, the George and Louise Spindler Award; the award was made to him posthumously.Ogbu's fields of specialization included the minority status and schooling in urban industrial societies, collective identity, and culture and intelligence or culture and cognition and so on. His theoretical framework for explaining variability in minority students' school performance became the orthodoxies in the anthropology of education. He was a productive writer; his works has been translated into many characters and is among the most widely cited in both anthropology and education.