How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Black Male Students, Schools, and Learning in Enhancing the Knowledge Base to Disrupt Deficit Frameworks

Review of Research in Education

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-86

  Howard, Tyrone C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.3102/0091732X12462985     Document Type: Article

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