Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools

By Freeden Blume Oeur ’03. University of Minnesota Press, August 2018. Available on Amazon. While single-sex public schools face much criticism, many Black communities see in them a great promise: that they can remedy a crisis for their young men. Black Boys Apart looks at at two all-male schools, a public high school and a charter high school, drawing on Freeden Blume Oeur’s ethnographic work