Ann arnett ferguson biography of william hill

Ferguson, A.

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About the Author.

About the Author.

Ann Arnett Ferguson demonstrates how a group of eleven- and twelve-year-old males are identified by school personnel as "bound for jail" and.

Ann Arnett Ferguson was educated through high school in Kingston, Jamaica, and received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ann married John Ferguson on month day , at age 24 in marriage place.

Black males are disproportionately "in trouble" and suspended from the nation's school systems.

Bad boys: Public schools in the making of black masculinity. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan. pp., ISBN: (pbk). $

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson chronicles the experiences of Black boys within the "punishing room" or in-school suspension room of a public elementary school on the West Coast of the United States and details how the experiences of these boys shape their identity.

Ann Arnett Ferguson's background includes education from Jamaica, a PhD from UC Berkeley, and teaching positions in Ghana, Tanzania, and Massachusetts.

Ferguson's concentration was an attempt to understand the issues and problems facing African American males within a public elementary school. The study is an ethnographic account of the experiences of 20 fifth- and sixth-grade African American boys over the course of two years.

Ferguson's critical approach to the struggles of African American males reveals her desire for their emancipation from the