Toward a new narrative on black males, education, and public policy

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-32

  Brown, Anthony L ^a   Donnor, Jamel K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Black male criss; Black males; Public policy

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK POPULATION; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; EDUCATION; MALE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751556783     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2011.531978     Document Type: Article

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