Why Black girls don't matter: Exploring how race and gender shape academic success in an inner city school

Support for Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 197-202

  Rollock, Nicola ^a  

^a Institute for Policy Studies in Education   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievement; Black girls; Cultural capital; Exclusion; Femininity masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85003412593     PISSN: 02682141     EISSN: 14679604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9604.2007.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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