Liberating the production of knowledge about African American children and mathematics

Mathematics Teaching Learning and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-36

  Martin, Danny Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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