In our own words: Academically successful and unsuccessful low‐income African American young men talk about academic life

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-269

  Foeman, Anita K ^a   Brown, Tim ^b   Pugh, David ^a   Pearson, Michael ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic failure; Academic success; African American men; Organizational communication styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937279674     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361729     Document Type: Article

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