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The Remarkable Curvature of the Mind of Abdias do Nascimento Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Molefi Kete Asante
Nascimento transcended the country of his birth and established himself in the minds and hearts of Africans everywhere as a combatant against racism and classism. Abdias do Nascimento was to Brazil what Langston Hughes and Katherine Dunham were to African Americans, a phenomenon of cultural energy that lifted his people to the highest dimensions of art in defiance of a designed degradation of blackness
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The Ram’s Horns: Reflections on the Legacy of Abdias Nascimento Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Elisa Larkin Nascimento
Abdias Nascimento’s legacy is timely in a world experiencing exacerbated racial conflict and setbacks in public policy addressing inequality. This essay addresses two dimensions: on one hand, Nascimento’s life and work, and the tools he used to combat racism in the diverse realms of social and political activism as well as culture and the arts; on the other, IPEAFRO’s efforts and initiatives to make
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Africology and the Question of Disciplinary Language Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Ama Mazama
This essay is a contribution to Africology’s discipline-building. It examines more particularly the importance of disciplinary language, stressing the need for clear language and consistent definitions. Of particular concern are terms like “African-centeredness” and “Africancentered” which have never been clearly defined although they are widely used. This clout, this essay argues, impedes discipline-building
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#ModernBaartmans: Black Women’s Reimagining of Saartjie Baartman Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Rokeshia Renné Ashley
The purpose of this study is to understand Black women’s recollection and representation of Saartjie Baartman in comparison to their own body image, while also aligning their interpretation of Baartman’s legacy through contemporary reflections of themselves and others. Interviews with 30 Black women in South Africa (n = 15) and the United States (n = 15) reveal that accurate knowledge and perceptions
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Africana Cultural Memory in the Afroeuropean Context Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Christel N. Temple
With the publication of Black Cultural Mythology (2020), the discipline of Africology and African American Studies has a better resource that answers the call for methodological and theoretical tools to institutionalize Africana cultural memory studies as a robust subfield. This content analysis tests the applicability of the critical framework of Black cultural mythology—which emerges from a study
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Strategic Mentoring: A Culturally Responsive Approach for Supporting Black Males Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Quintin Leon Robinson
Young Black males living in single-parent homes, in spite of never having a mentor, understand the value of a responsible same-sex mentor. Thirteen Black males between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five offered well-expressed thoughts on mentoring and why they believe mentoring adds value to their lives. They characterized unstructured mentoring as a process without a specific agenda. The consideration
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Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.
This article examines the relationship between academia and activism. It explores the undergraduate experience of veteran 21st century Black student activist, David C. Turner, III, revealing the foundations of his academic and activist career in higher education. Framed in the context of student engagement and high impact educational practices, this paper argues that 21st century Black student activists
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Conceptualising Male Vulnerability in a Ghanaian Context: Implications for Adult Education and Counselling Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Gideon Mensah Anapey, Ama Otwiwah Adu-Marfo, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong
Gender advocates have bemoaned the diatribe about women inequality at the neglect of males’ vulnerability in abstract narratives. We propose that achievement of female empowerment will be complimented by empirically exploring men’s vulnerability themes wrapped in “masculinity” with cultural differences. This study documented views on male vulnerability in the Ghanaian environment using mixed-method
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Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Folabomi L. Ogunyemi
Ugly Ways (1993) by Tina McElroy Ansa has been overlooked as a significant contribution to African American feminist literary fiction. This paper performs a close reading examining the novel’s thematic intersection of Black feminist theory and trauma theory. Part one of this essay defines Black feminist theory and outlines key concepts of Black feminist thought. Parts two and three focus on the protagonist
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Derek Chauvin: Racist Cop or Product of a Racist Police Academy? Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Patrick Radebe
This study uses Jerome Skolnick’s theory of the working personality to reveal how the training police recruits receive works to foster an institutional culture that promotes discrimination against Blacks. Possible solutions include anti-racist and Afrocentric educational initiatives, police reform and measures aimed at improving relations between police departments and the communities they serve.
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Black Death and Mourning as Pandemic Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Hugo Canham
Black bodies have been the site of devastation for centuries. We who inhabit and love these bodies live in a state of perpetual mourning. We mourn the disproportionate dying in our families, communities and the dying in the black diaspora. We are yet to come to terms with the death that accompanied the AIDS pandemic. Tuberculosis breeds in the conditions within which most of us live. We die from hours
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“We Can Redefine Ourselves”: Enhancing Black College Men’s Persistence Through Counterspaces Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa S. Clark, Jarrod E. Druery
Black college men are constantly repositioned in higher education discourse as problems and in crises. However, there is much to be learned from Black men’s engagement in college and the meanings they make from those experiences. In this qualitative study, we use the engagement experiences of 25 Black men at an historically white campus in the U.S. in order to reveal the value of counterspaces on campus
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Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society: An Afrocentric Perspective Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Eyo O. Mensah, Idom T. Inyabri, Benjamin O. Nyong
This article explores the rejection of indigenous African (first) names and the preference for European and westernized names by some Nigerian youth, especially those living in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The article investigates the personal, cultural and social motivations for foreign names adoption and the subjective interpretations of both rejected and adopted
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Introduction: African Americans: Official and Unofficial Violence in America Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Molefi Kete Asante
In this essay the author introduces the emergence of the paddy rollers as control forces to contain the black population during the enslavement of Africans in the United States. Soon after the end of the Civil War the police forces took over the activities that had been the purvey of the paddy rollers: keeping black people in place and out of the way of white people. However, the resistance to abuse
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Corrigendum to Undoing the Hottentoting of “the Queen of Punt”: An Afronography on the Kemetiu depiction of Ati of Punt Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-11-30
Samuels, T. (2020). Undoing the Hottentoting of “the Queen of Punt” A Jamaican Afronography on the Kemetiu Depiction of Ati of Punt. Journal of Black Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934720945360
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Virtual Theme Collection: Body Politics: Making Black Lives Matter Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Molefi Kete Asante
Few journals in the social sciences have published as much over the past twenty years on the reality of racial, cultural, and social inequality in law and practice as the Journal of Black Studies. In this special issue edited in the 50th year of the journal we have initiated a series related to the evolution of human relations that considers where we have been and what we need to arrive at the place
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“I’m Supposed To Be Thick”: Managing Body Image Anxieties Among Black American Women Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Elizabeth Hughes
Prior literature on Black women’s body image heavily relies on comparative studies to confirm Black women’s greater body satisfaction relative to white women. Collectively, these studies argue that “cultural buffers” exempt Black women from the thin ideal and instead, encourage women to embrace thickness as a mark of racial pride. And while the literature largely establishes Black women’s preference
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Examining Practices of Retaining Black Female Faculty and Staff in Independent Schools Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Shayna Marie Cooke, Kristina Bethea Odejimi
K12 Independent schools have historically struggled with attracting and retaining faculty of color within their communities. This paper aims to explore the experiences of faculty of color, specifically Black women, in predominately White institutions and offer practical solutions to creating safe and equitable spaces where these individuals can feel seen, heard, and valued. The research for this paper
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TEST SEIRCRT |ˈsəːkrɪt |: For the Health of Our Communities Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Jennifer Mills
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases that are being confirmed in Canada provide an opportunity to expand the epidemic model for the simulation of disease infection spread: Susceptible- Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR). This paper develops a SEIRCRT |ˈsəːkrɪt | model that integrates the Institute for Disease Modeling’s SEIR model and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to answer the question: What
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Placemaking in the Transnational Caribbean: A Rastafari Community in Ethiopia Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Scott Timcke, Shelene Gomes
Considered a sacred place, Shashamane plays a foundational role in the Rastafari transnational social imaginary, especially when one considers how it is a purposeful response to the horrors of racial capitalism. Through an analysis of scenes of everyday life in Shashamane, Ethiopia, we examine the components of migrant Rastafari material culture and the resultant placemaking practices. Like other places
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Barbara Lee’s Peacebuilding Discourse as Transformative Social Justice Politics Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Ellen W. Gorsevski
This essay explores discourses of Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), appreciating her intersectional standpoint as a leader in Trumpian times, and as the lone AA woman dissenter who has long advocated peace over war in the United States” Congress in the aftermath of two politically seismic shifts: (1) September 11, 2001 and (2) the rise of right wing politics in the U.S. and internationally. As
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“The Steep Edge of a Dark Abyss”: Mohonk, White Social Engineers, and Black Education Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Lasana D. Kazembe
June 2020 marks the 130th anniversary of the First Mohonk Conference on “The Negro Question.” For 3 days, elite, ruling-class Whites met to discuss efforts to train and assimilate Black Americans into the socioeconomic strata of the U.S. south. Deeper scrutiny of the political rationale of Mohonkers belies a paternalism driven by deep-seated fear and loathing of Black people; collective anxiety over
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Exploring Afrocentricity: An Analysis of the Discourse of Oprah Winfrey Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Felicia R. Stewart
Oprah Winfrey is a world recognizable icon, having achieved success in many different arenas. Her ongoing accomplishments have global influence, and she is known for consistently using her powerful voice. As a skilled orator, Winfrey is often sought after for speaking engagements, including commencement ceremonies, and she has delivered numerous graduation speeches to diverse audiences. This article
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Expect the Best; Not the Worst: The Impact of Parental Expectation on Black Males’ Math Scores Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Lawrence J. Jackson, Jesse R. Ford, Brittny A. James, Cydney A. Schleiden, DeAnna Harris-McKoy, Jamila E. Holcomb
Due to the racial and gender disparities within K-12 education for Black males, this study examines parental expectations as a moderator in the association between student’s educational expectancy and their math scores. This study utilized a national representative sample from the High School Longitudinal Study: 2009 to test hypotheses with 1,282 9th grade Black males. Results indicated significant
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The Framing of Race: Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter Movement Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Kimberly Lane, Yaschica Williams, Andrea N. Hunt, Amber Paulk
This study analyzed two national newspapers to investigate how each framed race in coverage of Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing from Feagin’s white racial frame as the framework for analysis, results show that the news coverage reflected an encompassing pro-white/anti-black master-frame that presented Black Americans as inadequate, lawless, criminal, threatening and at times
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African Cultural Memory in Fred Khumalo’s Touch my Blood and its Metafictional Para-texts Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-09-25 Michael Kgomotso Masemola
This article gleans its momentum from Ronit Frenkel’s palimpsestic observation that the local and the global exist as “coeval discourses of signification in South African transitional literature,” ...
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Undoing the Hottentoting of “the Queen of Punt” A Jamaican Afronography on the Kemetiu Depiction of Ati of Punt Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Tristan Samuels
The physical appearance of Ati, the co-ruling woman of Punt, often referred to as “the Queen of Punt,” as depicted in the pharaoh Hatshepsut’s “Voyage to Punt” has been subject to scholarly attention in the European academy. However, in this scholarship her appearance is disparaged as humorous or pathological which is reminiscent of the racist characterizations of Ssehura of the Khoi-Khoi people as
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Don’t Talk to White People: On the Epistemological and Rhetorical Limitations of Conversations With White People for Anti-Racist Purposes: An Essay Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Amir R. A. Jaima
Productive dialogue with white people for anti-racist purposes is precluded by the political limits prescribed by the “principle of interest convergence,” occluded by the epistemological conditions of “white ignorance,” and disincentivized by the psychological burdens of “racial battle fatigue” borne by You and me, the Black would-be interlocutors. Nevertheless, much popular effort is spent—dare I
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African Discourses on the Africanization and Decolonization of Social and Human Sciences Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-09-13 Katunga J. Minga
The purpose of this paper is to bring together some discourses from the authors of the books that made their marks in their days and from which we can learn more about the ongoing debate on decolonization and Africanization. Taking the historical perspective, first the paper builds its argument by showing how the current social science is still run according to the vestiges of orthodoxy. This is followed
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Race, Entitlement, and Belonging: A Discursive Analysis of the Political Economy of Land in Zimbabwe Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Langton Makuwerere Dube
The access, control, and ownership of land and the means of production is an enduring frontier of conflict in post colonial settler states. Whilst racially tinged, colonialism created “structures of feeling” that sanctioned epistemic violence and created an economy of entitlement and belonging that sustained imperial designs. Zimbabwe’s independence meant the redistribution and proprietorship of land
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Faces of Blackness: The Creation of the New Negro and Négritude Movements in Harlem and Paris Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Gamby Diagne Camara
This article explores the cultural and ideological link between the New Negro Movement of Harlem and the Négritude Movement of Paris from 1920s to the 1940s. It examines how the works of African American, Caribbean, and African authors such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Aimé Césaire, and Léopold Sedar Senghor amongst others are, despite their different backgrounds, united by the common themes of
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African Indigenous Leadership Philosophy and Democratic Governance System: Gada’s Intersectionality with Ubuntu Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Abdurahman Abdulahi Aliye
This paper aims to add to the recent scholarly search for African leadership philosophy to improve leadership effectiveness in Africa. It examines the Oromo Gada system’s democratic governance and leadership principles and argues its relevance to the current and future leadership effectiveness in Oromia, Ethiopia, and Africa. It analyses the literature on the history, culture, and current practices
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Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-08-06 Jandel Crutchfield, J. Camille Hall, Anna Ortega-Williams, Sarah L. Webb
The colorist-historical trauma framework offers scholars, practitioners, and educators a new lens with which to more effectively combat racial disparities in society through the understanding of the intergenerational transmission of colorism in the historical trauma response of African Americans. This article applies the colorist-historical trauma framework to the colorism poems of young African Americans
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Africana Studies Catalytic Consciousness (ASCC) Theory: A Cosmic Understanding of the Impact of Africana Studies Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Serie McDougal
Colonization, enslavement, and institutionalized oppression have disrupted the relationship between the educational experiences of Black students and the fate of African/Black communities. Research has shown that Africana studies has demonstrated the capacity to realign the education of Black students in higher education, leading to the advancement of communities of African descent. This analysis aims
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“The Only Thing New is the Cameras”: A Study of U.S. College Students’ Perceptions of Police Violence on Social Media Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Felicia Campbell, Pamela Valera
The present study explored the impact of publicized incidents of police violence on racially underrepresented college students in the U.S. Approximately 134 college students at various colleges and universities in the U.S. completed a questionnaire that examined their engagement with police brutality videos, reactions about police killings of unarmed Black men (and boys), their encounters with police
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Wine, Beer, and Lotto: Black Community Mobilization Against Liquor Stores in Chicago Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Twyla Blackmond Larnell, Christina Campbell, Jordan Papp
Many studies find a higher density of liquor stores in urban communities with predominantly Black and/or low-income residents. Although these business establishments tend to fill commercial voids in these neighborhoods, residents complain that liquor stores often provoke serious problems. Scholars support these claims with findings showing evidence of strong correlations between liquor stores and crime
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“When We See Them”: Race as Conduit of Criminal Prosecution Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Ronald E. Hall
Scholarly and lay literature pertaining to the criminal prosecution of black males are in contrast with white males. White male defendants are met by a system of judicial leniency. Conversely, the false convictions of the Central Park Five are met by judicial hostility. Considering the auspices of such hegemony, law enforcement, journalism, and the society at-large, are dominated by the concept of
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Racial Identity Profiles Among Suicidal Black Women: A Replication and Extension Study Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 Yara Mekawi, Ciera B. Lewis, Natalie N. Watson-Singleton, Isatou F. Jatta, llana Ander, Dorian Lamis, Sarah E. Dunn, Nadine J. Kaslow
Despite increasing rates of suicidality among African American women, relatively little is known about culturally-specific factors relevant to their suicidality. Thus, our objectives were to: (1) determine whether previously-identified racial identity profiles replicated in a clinical sample of African American women and (2) examine whether profiles differed on suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and
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Autophagy Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Victor Peterson
What follows is a proof as to why, at its origin, the articulation of any doctrine of racial supremacy harbors an internal contradiction. The notion of racial supremacy suffers from its own predicament for, by its inconsistency, Whites cannot be “White.” This proof has the added benefit of illustrating that it is precisely because of the unattainability of “White”-ness that there is so much animosity
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Death by Wasting Away: The Life, Last Days, and Legacy of Lucy Byard Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Benjamin Baker
Lucille Spence Byard is one of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Her rejection for medical treatment due to her race at an Adventist sanitarium on the Maryland-Washington, D.C., border in 1943 was the major catalyst for the formation of regional conferences, or Black-administered governance units, within the North American administrative structure of the Seventh-day
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Kemetic Principles in African American Public Address: An Interrogation of the Rhetoric of Joseph C. Price and the Kemetic Tradition Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Damariyé L. Smith
The purpose of this essay is to promote the utilization of Kemetic principles in approaching African American public address. Although there have been recent studies on African American public address, the employment of the Kemetic philosophy is limited. Using the four overarching ethical principles of Kemetic rhetorical tradition as outlined by Karenga, this essay interrogates Joseph C. Price’s 1890
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Self-Reported Experiences of Racial Discrimination Among African Americans in Upstate New York Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Amina P. Alio, Cindi A. Lewis, Heather Elder, Wade Norwood, Kingdom Mufhandu, Michael C. Keefer
Racial discrimination in the United States continues to adversely affect health outcomes to the detriment of African Americans. To assess the experiences of residents of a metropolitan community with high rates of racial health disparities in upstate New York, we conducted a survey to measure the primary reasons for discrimination and their experiences with daily and lifetime discrimination, reactions
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“He Was a Good Boy”: The Caribbean Black Mothers’ Experience of Coping and Grief With the Homicide of Their Sons in Trinidad Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Camille Huggins, Glenda Hinkson, Keevin Charles
There is little research on Caribbean Black mothers coping with the homicide of their sons. This phenomenological study examines mothers’ grief and coping after the homicide of their male child on the small island state of Trinidad, where people are close knit and socially interconnected. In-depth interviews of 10 mothers who suffered the loss of their sons within a 10-year period were conducted and
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Suicide among Black Children: An Integrated Model of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide and Intersectionality Theory for Researchers and Clinicians Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Ijeoma Opara, Maame Araba Assan, Kimberly Pierre, John F. Gunn, Isha Metzger, Jahi Hamilton, Eileen Arugu
Recently, research has reported that the rates of suicide among Black children between the ages of 5 to 12-years-old are increasing as they are now more likely to commit suicide than White children. Yet, there are very few, if any, frameworks being used by researchers to explain the risks of suicide among Black children. Suicide research has overwhelmingly been focused on White youth thus leaving a
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A Place for Me? African American Transfer Student Involvement on the Campus of a Predominantly White Institution in the Midwest Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Danielle J. McCall, Jason Castles
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and sense of belonging of African American transfer students attending a predominantly White institution in the Midwest when resources tailored to this specific group were available. This study sought to explore the effect that support services (or lack of) and staff had on the lived experiences and student involvement of African American students
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Narrating the Struggle, Theorizing the Genre: The Convergence of Narrative and Literary-Critical Theory in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Tavengwa Gwekwerere
This article explores Achebe’s insertion of literary-theoretical discourse into traditional narrative space in Anthills of the Savannah with a view to demonstrating part of the limitless possibilities that the continental African novel pulsates with. It evokes the coexistence of narrative and literary-theoretical discourse in this particular novel through critical focus on selected characters’ reflections
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“We Have a Black Professor?” Rejecting African Americans as Disseminators of Knowledge Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Sonya McCoy-Wilson
Black students at predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) often do not perceive Black faculty as disseminators of knowledge. Instead, Black students view Black faculty through a racialized lens, ignoring their positionality as academic experts in positions of power. The purpose of this essay is to examine the troubling impact that this perception has on teaching and learning, to propose culturally
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Medication Adherence Among African American Women Who Have Been HIV Positive for 10 or More Years Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-05-17 Sabrina T. Cherry, Kathleen deMarrais, Cheryl Keita
Although new HIV infections in African American women have decreased, this population still constitutes the over half of all new HIV infections in women. Risk-reduction interventions and advancements in antiretroviral therapies have helped HIV-positive persons live longer. However, there are lags in care linkages and retention. Medication adherence is an important aspect of enhancing quality of and
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Worse Than “Bushmen” and Transhumance? Transitology and the Resilient Cannibalization of African Heritages Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Artwell Nhemachena, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa, Nkosinothando Mpofu
Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources)
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African American Young Adult Women’s Stories About Love: What I Want in a Long-Term Partner Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Jada E. Brooks, Darren D. Moore
African American marriage rates have declined over the years. This qualitative study examines the ways in which African American young adult women describe their desires in potential long-term (possibly marriage) partners. The following research questions guided the study: (a) What are young adult African American women’s perceptions as it relates to long-term relationships and marriage? and (b) What
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Biko: Exploring Black Identity in Brazil Through a U.S. Lens Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Sheryl Felecia Means
This article analyzes how Black Consciousness and Citizenship (CCN), a curriculum produced at the Steve Biko Cultural Institute (Biko) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, is influential to the production of a Black identity. In addition, I assess “the relationship between Black identity and education” at Biko through the lens of Zirkel and Johnson’s strengths-based narratives as a counternarrative to anti-Blackness
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The Slave Revolt That Changed the World and the Conspiracy Against It: The Haitian Revolution and the Birth of Scientific Racism Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Jean Max Charles
This paper argues, first, that despite the transnational impact of the Haitian Revolution, it remains mostly unknown in the Western hemisphere. This is primarily the result of an international racist project to repress the idea of Black Revolution and undermine Haiti’s progress. Second, I argue that, since the second half of the 19th century, intellectuals and social scientists have contributed to
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“Dead Men Make Such Convenient Heroes”: The Use and Misuse of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy as Political Propaganda Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Christopher D. Rounds
In American history and memory, few figures stand as prominently as Martin Luther King Jr. In the minds of countless Americans, he remains the consummate activist for civil rights and social justice. Perhaps the most telling indication of his stature is the manner in which he is called upon, again and again, by proponents of varying political parties and ideologies as somebody who would, were he alive
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Liberating the Mind: Rastafari and the Theorization of Maroonage as Epistemological (Dis) engagement Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-02-21 Randy R. Goldson
This article explores the concept of maroonage (other spellings “maronage,” “marronnage,” and “marronage”) as a process of epistemological engagement and disengagement using the way in which the Rastafari movement constructs, organizes, and legitimates knowledge and knowledge production. By focusing on the Rastafari processes of knowledge production and legitimation, this article allows for a theorization
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“And They Knew They Were Naked”: The Mortification of the Black Body Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-02-08 Michael Lindsay
While it may be characterized as the inception of freedom for the colonizing and imperial-minded European, America represents a great tribulation for the enslaved African, kidnapped and sold an ocean away from his homeland, and it can be characterized as an all-out assault on African peoples’ bodies, culture, and minds. Though the economic interest of Europeans was the impetus for the African Holocaust
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A Descriptive Study Using the Comprehensive Race Socialization Inventory: Findings From the National Survey of American Life-Adolescent Supplement Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Tony N. Brown, Julian Culver, Kiana Wilkins, Quintin Gorman, Asia Bento, Aly M. Alvis, Chase L. Lesane-Brown, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell
This study examines race socialization, defined as the process whereby individuals learn about the meaning and significance of race and racism. With data from the 2001–2004 National Survey of American Life-Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A), we analyze responses to the Comprehensive Race Socialization Inventory (CRSI) among 1,170 African American and Caribbean Black adolescents between the ages of 13 and
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Painful Legacy of Historical African American Culture Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Patrick Edward Davis
African Americans continue to experience significant difficulty integrating into mainstream American society. Research literature demonstrates that after decades of legislation designed to address African American socialization issues, African Americans continue to seem to be unable to pull many of their communities out of academic disparities, high unemployment, crippling poverty, and endemic crime
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I Am Afrocentric and Pan-African: A Response to Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha on Scholarship in South Africa Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Molefi Kete Asante
African intellectuals are debating the future of knowledge construction in the wake of the collapse of colonization, European settlerism, and apartheid. Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha has posited the debate between Afrocentricity and Eurocentrism in his paper “I am of Popper; I am of Asante: The Polemics of Scholarship in South Africa” published in Studies in Philosophy and Education as an expression of
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Violent Trends in Hip-Hop Entertainment Journalism Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-01-19 Tyree Oredein, Kiameesha Evans, M. Jane Lewis
While the prevalence and adverse effects of violence in hip-hop music and music videos have been studied extensively, hip-hop entertainment journalism, which reports on hip-hop news and events, has been largely unexplored. The purpose of this study was to examine violent trends in hip-hop journalism. We conducted a content analysis on a random sample of 970 news articles, 218 interview articles and
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Premature Deaths of Young Black Males in the United States Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.525) Pub Date : 2020-01-03 Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Johnny Rice, A. Christson Adedoyin, Lori James-Townes
In the United States, generations of young Black males, ages 15 to 24 years, are prematurely dying from homicide and suicide. Between 1950 and 2010, the average death rate for young Black males due to homicide was 81.7 per 100,000 and suicide was 11.8 per 100,000. Ages 15 to 24 years are the intersecting developmental stages of adolescence and young adulthood when premature death should not be expected
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