The question is: when it comes to school, how did black boys end up getting a bad rap? Ann Arnett Ferguson explores this question in her book bad boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity, which she…
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Hip-hop and “The Creature”
by Keri • • 3 Comments
In the first chapter, titled “Don’t believe the hype,” of her book author Ann Ferguson confirms my belief that students live up or down to the expectations placed on them by the school system and larger society. I remember from…