"They Think Minority Means Lesser Than": Black Middle-Class Sons and Fathers Resisting Microaggressions in the School

Urban Education

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 171-197

  Allen, Quaylan ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black fathers; Black males; Black middle class; critical race theory; microaggressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875093674     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085912450575     Document Type: Article

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