The boy problem : educating boys in urban America, 1870-1970 / Julia Grant.

  • Grant, Julia, 1953-
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

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Description

A study which sheds light on contemporary concerns over the academic performance of boys of color who now flounder in school or languish in the juvenile justice system.

Publication/Creation

Baltimore, Maryland : John Hopkins University Press, [2014]

Physical description

230 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

1. Schooling the "Dangerous Classes": Reforming Boys in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. The Nature of Boy Nature: Education and Recreation for Masculinity --- 3. The Perils of Public Education: Truants, Underachievers, and School Leavers -- 4. Bad or Backward?: Gender and Genesis of Special Education -- 5. "The Boys' Own Story": Masculinity, Peer Culture, and Delinquency -- 6. Black Boys and Native Sons: Race, Delinquency, and Schooling in the Urban North.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CA.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781421412597
  • 1421412594