"Still not saved": The power of mathematics to liberate the oppressed

Mathematics Teaching Learning and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 304-330

  Leonard, Jacqueline ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203877708     Document Type: Chapter

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