Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

Name: Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
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ISBN: 9780472088492

ISBN-10: 0472088491

ISBN-13: 9780472088492

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ann Arnett Ferguson

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Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students to understand this serious problem. Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school personnel as "bound for jail" and how the youth construct a sense of self under such adverse circumstances. The author focuses on the perspective and voices of pre-adolescent African American boys. How does it feel to be labeled "unsalvageable" by…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/28/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Don't believe the hype


Field note: A Field Trip



The punishing room


Field note: First Impressions



School rules


Field note: Self-Description



Naughty by nature


A shift in perspective



The real world


Field note: Mothering



Getting in trouble


Field note: ODD Symptoms



Unreasonable circumstances


Field note: Promotion Exercises



Dreams


Works cited


Index