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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Freeden Blume OeurPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816696383ISBN 10: 0816696381 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 07 August 2018 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reform, Respectability, and the Crisis of Young Black Men 1. A Tale of Two (Neoliberal) Schools: The Origins of Perry High and Northside Academy 2. Contradictory Discourses: Separating Boys and Girls 3. Teaching Black Boys: From Cultural Relevance to Culturally Irrelevant Latin 4. Black Male Belonging: Race Leadership, Role Modeling, and Brotherhood 5. Heroic Family Men and Ambitious Entrepreneurs: The Making of Black Men Conclusion: Hoping and Hustling Together Acknowledgments Appendix: Interview and Student Data Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsIn this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement. -Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur's bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity. -Prudence Carter, University of California, Berkeley In this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement. -Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur's bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity. -Prudence Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools Author InformationFreeden Blume Oeur is assistant professor of sociology at Tufts University. He is coeditor of Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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