Educating Black Males: Critical Lessons in Schooling, Community, and Power

From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Educating Black Males: Critical Lessons in Schooling, Community, and Power, by Ronnie Hopkins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 145 pp. $16.50, cloth. Reviewed by Maxwell C. Manning, School of Social Work, Howard University.

Educating Black Males begins with an overview of the educational crises facing today's Black males. Indeed, the introductory chapter is replete with findings and statistics detailing the disproportionate numbers of such males who have been labeled "slow learners," emotionally and cognitively "impaired," and "uneducable mentally retarded," and who ...

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