Against the Odds: The Meaning of School and Relationships in the Lives of Six Young African-American Men

by Jeremy Price

Overview

Through examining the meanings and experiences of the six young men in this study, we can expand our understanding of the complexities of the lives of African-American men and simultaneously challenge seemingly unidimensional images of black men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504972
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/24/2000
Series:	Issues in Curriculum Theory, Policy, and Research Series
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

JEREMY N. PRICE is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Curriculum of Instruction (and serves as director of a Master's teacher preparation program). His research interests focus on understanding the lives of historically disenfranchised students and corresponding efforts to transform teaching and teacher education. His publications include jourbanal articles on racialized masculinities, action research, and liberatory and huminizing pedagogies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Six Young Men
The Politics of a White Researcher Learning About Young African-American Men's Experiences of School
Situated Meanings of the High School Diploma
Accommodation and Critique if Life in Classrooms
Building Connections
Images of Self, Images of Others
Power, Privilege, and Inequality
References
Author Index
Subject Index