Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Tackling historical and contemporary education problems	11
1	Racism, policy and the (mis)education of black children	13
2	The education of Black children: why do some schools do better than others?	28
3	Academic disidentification: unravelling under achievement among Black boys	45
Pt. II	Radical Black approaches to education	59
4	The 'miseducation' of Black children in the British educational system - towards an African-centred orientation to knowledge	61
5	Lessons from America: the African American Immersion Schools experiment	79
6	Black supplementary schools: spaces of radical blackness	90
Pt. III	Reflections on social exclusion and inclusion	103
7	The exclusion of Black children: implications for a racialised perspective	105
8	Educational psychologists and Black exclusion: towards a framework for effective intervention	110
9	Black exclusions in a moral vacuum	128
Pt. IV	Rites of passage, manhood training and masculinity perspectives	139
10	Enhancing achievement in adolescent Black males: the Rites of Passage link	141
11	An after-school manhood development program	157
12	Black boys at school: negotiating masculinities and race	169
13	Black boys and schooling: an intervention framework for understanding the dilemmas of masculinity, identity and underachievement	183
Pt. V	Mentoring and education	203
14	Mentoring Black males: responding to the crisis in education and social alienation	205
15	School based mentoring for minority youth: program components and evaluation strategies	214
	List of contributors	258
	Index	264