Academic disidentification: Unravelling under achievement among black boys

Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 45-58

  Osborne, Jason W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203995648-11     Document Type: Chapter

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