Derrick R. Brooms

Stakes Is High

Trials, Lessons, and Triumphs in Young Black Men's Educational Journeys

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Drawing on interviews that span over seven years, Derrick R. Brooms provides detailed accounts of a select group of Black young men's pathways from secondary school through college. As opposed to the same old stories about young Black men, Brooms offers new narratives that speak to Black boys' and young men's agency, aspirations, hopes, and possibilities. Even as they feel contested and constrained because they are Black and male, these young men anchor their educational desires within their families and communities. Critical to their journeys are the many challenges they face in public discourse and societal projections, in their home neighb… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4384-8655-0
EAN: 9781438486550
Produktnummer: 35863439
Verlag: State University of New York Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 314 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Derrick R. Brooms is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences, also published by SUNY Press.