Understanding black academic attainment: Policy and discourse, educational aspirations and resistance

Education Inquiry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-102

  Wright, Cecile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

black students; community; educational desire; neo liberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933522617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20004508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/edui.v4i1.22063     Document Type: Article

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