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Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinityreviewed by Sandra Stein - 2002 Title: Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity Author(s): Ann Arnett Ferguson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor ISBN: 0472111035, Pages: 236 , Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com
Most educators and scholars agree that in order for meaningful
teaching and learning to occur, schools need to be safe and orderly
environments. However, in a society where the constructs of race,
gender, age and class shape interpretations of behavior, the
maintenance of an orderly school environment can interfere with the
educational possibilities of certain groups of students. Bad
Boys, Ann Arnett Ferguson’s provocative study of a
west-coast elementary school, uncovers how daily school routines
and practices construct Black masculinity as an oppositional social
identity in need of discipline, punishment, and control. Such a
construction impedes the educational opportunities made available
to African American males.
Through participant observation, interviews and conversations,
Ferguson exposes the daily routines of schooling that contribute to
the disproportionate number of Black boys who are labeled as
"troublemakers" and sent to sanctioned school spaces for
punishment. Peppered with incisive rap lyrics, one mother’s
powerful testimony, and the author’s own personal
reflections, the book looks at both the structures and individual
meanings of punishment in school.... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Sandra Stein
Baruch College School of Public Affairs E-mail Author Sandra Stein is assistant professor at Baruch College School of Public
Affairs. Her research interests include cultural studies of education
policies, educational leadership, and youth representations through art and
technology. Recent publications include "'These are your Title I students':
Policy language in educational practice" in Policy Sciences, and
"Opportunity to Learn as a policy outcome measure" in Studies in Educational
Evaluation.
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