Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

Black males are disproportionately "in trouble" and suspended from the nation's school systems. This is as true now as it was when Ann Arnett Ferguson's now classic Bad Boys was first published. Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students in order to demonstrate how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males construct a sense of self under adverse circumstances. This new edition includes a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera, and an afterword and bibliographic essay by the author, all of which reflect on the continuing relevance of this work nearly two decades after its initial publication.

Author: Ann Arnett Ferguson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780472037827
ISBN10: 047203782X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Law | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | General

About the Author
Ann Arnett Ferguson was educated through high school in Kingston, Jamaica, and received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught primary school in Ghana, middle school in Tanzania, and Black Studies and Women's Studies at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is retired and writing fiction in Portland, Oregon.