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Freeden Blume Oeur
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Freeden Blume Oeur is an associate professor of sociology at Tufts University whose work centers on anti-Black racism, childhood, and Du Boisian traditions. He integrates feminist and humanistic insights to challenge "adultist" and "presentist" biases in sociology. He is the author of the award-winning ethnography Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (2018) and co-editor of Gender Replay and Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society (2017). Recently honored with the 2025 ASA Mid-Career Award, his research spans gender, education, and African American intellectual history.