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This is an examination of social justice advocacy strategies through the lens of an interdisciplinary critical race feminist theoretical and methodological framework that integrates the disciplines of education, law, sociology, political science, history, and communication studies with the qualitative methodological tool of discourse analysis.

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PART I: TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
Academic Disciplines
A Social Justice Model
A Case Study
PART II: THE PROBLEM DEFINED
The Urban Male
Education Civil Rights Law
Patriarchy and Black Masculinity
PART III: THE CAUSE ATTRIBUTED
Females
Matriarchy and Feminism
Racism and Class Privilege
PART IV: THE SOLUTION PROPOSED
The Settlement agreement
´For Black Boys Only´
Black Nationalism
PART V: THE OUTCOME ACHIEVED
The Academies
Twenty Years Later
Remembering our Black Girls

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Menah A.E. Pratt-Clarke is Assistant Provost and Associate Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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