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9780807738702

African American Males in School and Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807738702

  • ISBN10:

    0807738700

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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Summary

In this groundbreaking volume Vernon Polite and James Davis have brought together the perspectives and research findings of eminent scholars who study the educational and social lives of African American males. This eloquent, engaging, and accessible volume has much to offer its readers and is especially important to people concerned with African American boys and men.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Edmund W. Gordon
Introduction 1(7)
Vernon C. Polite
James Earl Davis
Teaching Black Males: Lessons from the Experts
8(12)
Michele Foster
Tryphenia B. Peele
The Information Rage: Computers and Young African American Males
20(14)
Bernard A. Carver
The Social Construction of High-Incidence Disabilities: The Effect on African American Males
34(17)
Beth Harry
Mary G. Anderson
Identifying Giftedness Among African American Males: Recommendations for Effective Recruitment and Retention
51(17)
Donna Y. Ford
Tarek C. Grantham
Deryl F. Bailey
Who Am I? The Development of the African American Male Identity
68(14)
Saladin K. Corbin
Robert L. Pruitt, II
Responsive Teaching for African American Male Adolescents
82(15)
Peter Murrell, Jr.
Combating Educational Neglect in Suburbia: African American Males and Mathematics
97(11)
Vernon C. Polite
An Absence of a Talented Tenth
108(14)
Joseph A. Hawkins
Ebony Men in the Ivory Tower: A Policy Perspective
122(12)
M. Christopher Brown II
What Does Gender Have to Do with the Experiences of African American College Men?
134(15)
James Earl Davis
African American Achievement and Socioeconomic Collapse: Alternative Theories and Empirical Evidence
149(17)
Patrick L. Mason
African American Males and the Struggle Toward Responsible Fatherhood
166(18)
Vivian Gadsden
Phillip J. Bowman
A Cup That Runneth Over: Personal Reflections on the Black Male Experience
184(13)
Vernon C. Polite
References 197(26)
About the Editors and the Contributors 223(6)
Index 229

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