Emasculation blues: Black male teachers' perspectives on gender and power in the teaching profession

Teachers College Record

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Brockenbrough, F D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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