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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Freeden Blume Oeur, âBlack Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schoolsâ (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Description: How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), Freeden Blume Oeur uses observational and interview methods to better understand the lived experiences of young black men in two all-male schools. Situating the book in âprivilege, power, and politicsâ (p. 7), Blume Oeur encourages the reader to think beyond typical narratives around race and masculinity. The book elaborates on how the two all-male school come to be, structurally â through policies like No Child Left Behind, but also theoreticallyâthrough narrative...