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Summary Of Study Of Black Boys By George Sewell

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Sewell’s (1997) study of black boys in a secondary school examined what strategies black male students adopted to cope with racism in education. In his study he found teachers had a stereotype of ‘black machismo’ which sees all black boys as rebellious, anti-authority and anti-school. Sewell identified that in order to deal with this the boys formed groups that Sewell called ‘rebel subcultures’. Members of this group showed behaviour characteristics of truanting, disruptive behaviour in class and often excluded. Sewell (1997) found that male students especially, found it impossible to operate within the school system and confrontation with teachers became inevitable, due to the labels and stereotypes that they had been given by teachers. Similar
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