Black boys at school: Negotiating masculinities and race

Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 169-182

  Davis, James Earl ^a  

^a Centre for Community Development and Family Policy   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203995648-23     Document Type: Chapter

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