Enhancing achievement in adolescent black males: The rites of passage link

Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 141-156

  Alford, Keith ^a   Mc Kenry, Patrick ^b   Gavazzi, Stephen ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846360708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203995648-21     Document Type: Chapter

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