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Book Review: Caste: The Lies That Divide Us Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sharmila Narayana
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Global Coloniality and Ecological Injustice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021) Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Motsusi Nare, Peter Moopi, Oliver Nyambi
Postcolonial environmentalism in Africa explores interactions between humans and nature in the context of intensifying ecological violence in the aftermath of formal colonialism and its trademark violence of extractive power. As a critical approach that stresses the influence of colonial remains in everyday socio-political processes and relations, postcolonial environmentalism has been widely deployed
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Returning at Any Cost? How Black College Students’ Feel Toward COVID Vaccines and Institutional Mandates Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Joshua Childs, Z. W. Taylor
Decades of research have found African Americans to be unfairly marginalized by healthcare systems. As U.S. colleges released their plans to re-open for in-person classes for the Fall 2021 semester and beyond, research is needed into how African American students view vaccine mandates, such as the one levied in March 2021 by Rutgers University and many other institutions. Subsequently, the purpose
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Rage In (and Out) the Cage: Black Students’ Negotiation of Safety Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ashley J. Carpenter, Tita Feraud-King, Taylor Lewis, Kat J. Stephens-Peace, Pempho Chinkondenji, Emmanuela Stanislaus, Chrystal George Mwangi
This study explored the dynamic nature of 42 Black undergraduate and graduate students’ senses of safety as it relates to their college campuses due to the shifting vulnerabilities exposed in the current political and societal climate. We sought to make meaning of the pervasive threat to Black students’ safety related to their campus, which is linked to and transcends physical proximity to the campus
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American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ajibola A. Abdulrahman
Following the Biafran allegations of genocide against the Nigerian government during the Civil War, pro-Biafran groups emerged in the United States to pressure the American government into political intervention in the form of recognizing the Biafran republic. In response, African-American Civil Rights hero James Meredith counter-balanced the pro-Biafran groups, and advocated for one Nigeria in the
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“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Steve Bien-Aimé
When analyzing the composition of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, one can see the paucity of women and especially Black women in these areas. Generally when depicting people who excelled despite encountering substantial obstacles, news reports tend to celebrate the person’s success while often ignoring the structural reasons for the existing discrimination. Thus, this
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Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Geneva Greene, Raul T. Candelaria
This study explores United States of America media frames identified during the July 2021 Afro Cuban protests. Afro Cuban protest, the corresponding Black Lives Matter statement and associated media coverage converge at an intersection of the U.S. press media framing of Cuban politics and BLM movements. The researcher uses a content analysis of articles published by The New York Times and The Washington
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An Africological Excavation of Colonial Discourse Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Hope Dove
This article argues that epistemologies are significantly relevant to the decolonial project and the advancement of discourse around human interactions. Moreover, it is asserted that the decolonization of the mind can only occur within the context of changing the framework through which we understand the world and its history. As a concept, decolonizing the mind is dependent upon correcting dislocation
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The Suppression and Liberation of Malcolm’s Personal Agency: Malcolm X and His Religio-Racial Understanding of White People Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Jimmy Butts
Although the canonical interpretation by scholars of the life and thought of Malcolm X suggest that he would experience a major shift in his views on race, this author contends that Malcolm’s post-Hajj declarations about the white race were his beliefs about white people all along. It is not denied that Malcolm himself assisted in the construction of his Hajj experience being understood as an epiphany
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A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022 Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Jaleesa Reed, Christian J. Miller
Existing reviews focus on issues affecting Black Americans or beauty standards, respectively. In comparison, this scoping review identifies studies that address both topics. The 39 selected publica...
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Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Marcia Elizabeth Sutherland
This article explores the central role of Africanisms in Africans’ revolts against enslavement in Haiti and Jamaica. There is an investigation on the memories of Africa that motivated the military ...
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Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Brittany Davis, Kirk A. Foster, Ronald O. Pitner, Nikki R. Wooten, Mary L. Ohmer
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrifica...
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Retrofuturist Speculations: Race as Technology in Olaudah Equiano’s Vision of a Future Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Julie Iromuanya
Since the 1789 publication of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself, Olaudah Equiano’s identity has confoun...
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“Verbs are a Tragedy” Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz
“Language [is] a foreign anguish,” once declared Afro-Caribbean diasporic poet NourbeSe Philip. Philip’s sentiment holds true predominantly for those who write within Anglophone spheres, yet cannot...
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Hussle and Motivate: An Afrocentric Understanding of Constitutive Rhetoric Toward Economic Empowerment in Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap Album Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Damariyé L. Smith
This essay examines the rhetorical strategies of the late Nipsey Hussle regarding the intersection of cultural rhetoric, identity, economic success, and financial literacy. Using what I call Afroce...
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Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Adaobiagu N. Obiagu
Many moral and social problems affecting African people and development could be associated with (neo)colonial moral education problems in Africa: perpetuation of excessive materialism, individual ...
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African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.
Critical thinking is foundational in American higher education, and yet the approaches are largely grounded in European and Euro-American thought. It behooves Africana Studies, then, to develop an ...
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Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Clement Masakure, Lotti Nkomo
Drawing on a range of source material that is in public domain, chiefly newspapers and Parliamentary Debates, this article examines the efforts at renaming government schools in early 2000s in Zimb...
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Tornadic Black Angels: Vodou, Dance, Revolution Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Joshua M. Hall
This article explores the history of Vodou from outlawed African dance to revolutionary magic to depoliticized national Haitian religion and popular dance, its present reduction to Diaspora interpe...
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Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, and the Organization of African Unity: Appealing to Shepherds on Behalf of Their Lost Sheep at the 1964 OAU Summit Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jimmy Butts
Malcolm X’s appeal to the African Heads of State at the 1964 Organization of African Unity (OAU) meeting was necessary to strengthen the Pan-African bonds between Africans and African-Americans dur...
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Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Hyein Amber Kim
Previous studies have analyzed Korean hip hop through the lens of authenticity, language, and cultural hybridity, but not through the lens of race. One of the main characteristics of hip hop cultur...
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Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Artwell Nhemachena
Africans need to be careful with discourses on coloniality that avoid dealing with central aberrations of colonialism. Focusing on coloniality of power, coloniality of being, coloniality of knowled...
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“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Benjamin T. Lynerd, Jack Wartell
African American periodicals in the antebellum era advocated a fartherreaching agenda than just the abolition of slavery. Taking up a mantle of agrarian equality that runs through the English Commo...
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Unmasking My Truth: Autoethnography of Psychological Stress as a Black Woman in the Academy Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 ZaDonna M. Slay
In this article, I use autoethnography as a method to explore my identity and its associated stressful impact on me as a Black woman in the academy. I used the conceptual framework of critical race...
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Black Psychology and Black Criminality: Myths and Reality on the Origins of Black Street Life Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 William E. Cross, Jr.
This work interrogates the long-held assumption that captive Africans exited slavery exhibiting psychological damage that blocked their progress as free men, women and families. As a counter narrat...
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Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Oscar Oliver Eybers
The purpose of this investigation is to frame Global North colonialism in southern and eastern Africa as ontological appropriation. In the article’s conceptual framework, ontological appropriation ...
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Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Lena Englund
Topics relating to race and experiences of racism are made visible through literary texts such as Carol Anderson’s White Rage and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about R...
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Decolonizing the Curriculum: Who Were the Ancient Europeans? Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Marie Charles, Bill Boyle
The current international decolonizing debate is floundering. Despite well intentioned optimism that the debate would lead to an interrogation of the current schooling system and deepen the taught ...
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Agency Reduction Formation: The Origin and Development of a Practical Theory Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Michael Tillotson
The disciplinary credo for Africana Studies is Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility. Africana Studies as an academic discipline is charged with the responsibility to operate from this posi...
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Negotiating African American Language, Identity, and Culture in the Urban Classroom Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Karl O. Lyn
The dominant privilege that is ascribed to Standard American English within American classrooms presents socio-cultural challenges for many Black students who speak African American Vernacular Engl...
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Africology and the Problem of Whiteness in Contemporary Thinking Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Aaron X. Smith, (Jabali Ade), Nah Dove
The African combat arts have been central to the struggle of African people for self-determination. They have been critical as vehicles of resistance, while also serving a number of important social roles such as being a basis for group cohesion, expressing the kinesthetics of African culture, functioning as a venue for various African musical traditions, and—most notably—providing a means for self-protection
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“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Kamau Rashid
The African combat arts have been central to the struggle of African people for self-determination. They have been critical as vehicles of resistance, while also serving a number of important socia...
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Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Nelson Udoka Ukwamedua
The concept of time is coeval with man’s existence and coterminous with his endeavors. This is predicated on the fact that it sets and dictates the pace for man. People appreciate reality different...
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Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Keshia J. Green
This case study uses a conceptual framework that pieces together Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Black Feminist Theory to elevate the voices of Black elementary school teachers allowin...
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Strong Black Women: Linking Stereotypes, Stress, and Overeating Among a Sample of Black Female College Students Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Dawn Godbolt, Ijeoma Opara, Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha
This qualitative study examines how the “Strong Black Woman” (SBW) label can have potentially negative health effects for African American/Black women that contribute to eating disorders. This stud...
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Potential Contribution of African-American Migrants to Economic and Cultural Development in Africa Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Chanda Elbert, Fred Boadu
This article discusses the potential contributions of African American migrants to the economic and cultural development of destination countries in Africa. The study explores the contributions of ...
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“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Victor Chukwugekwu Ebonine
Over these last few years, the Northern region of Nigeria has been ignited with spates of students’ abductions and ransom demands which throw parents, security agents, and government (both federal and states) into confusion. In fact, it has become an existential threat such that national dailies break even with captivating, yet regrettably stylistic reportage of this ugly menace. The popular discourse
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Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Life Expectancy in the American South Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Robert L. Reece
As questions about racial reparations have entered public and political discourse again, research about the long-term impact of chattel slavery—so called “legacy of slavery” research—has taken on new significance. Over the past two decades researchers have identified direct quantitative links between slavery and a number of contemporary social and economic outcomes, including income, poverty, home
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Fanon on the Arbitrariness of Using Violence: An Inevitable for Both Colonialism and Decolonization Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Zenon Ndayisenga
This article examines Fanon’s reasoning on the inevitability of using violence for both antagonistic projects of colonialism and decolonization. Based on Fanon’s political thought, the article explores how the mono-concept of violence is interpreted differently. Such a lack of harmony in the interpretation of the concept of violence has called this article to be undertaken for an examination of Fanon’s
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The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Sureshi M. Jayawardene
This article is based on a content analysis of eight digital news reports published between June 2020 and March 2021 that link anti-Blackness in South Asia to the concerns of #BlackLivesMatter following George Floyd’s murder and the heightened global attention to issues of anti-Black racism against African Americans. In this study, I ask the following questions regarding these news reports: (1) How
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Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Marquis M. Baker, Joyce E. King
In this article we examine what selected online audiovisual and text resources teach about Africa using Africana/Black Studies scholarship to interrogate and assess opportunities such educational materials provide for African American students to identify with Africa and the African Renaissance concept. Popularized by Cheikh Anta Diop and promoted by Thabo Mbeki, the African Renaissance envisions the
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Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Lucas Skelton
African-American trailblazers are crucial in the game of golf as unlike some of the other mainstream sports, such as football, baseball, and basketball, the sport of golf has been historically entrenched in patriarchy and white privilege. The article analyzes the pioneering efforts and trailblazing endeavors of four legendary black golfers in this regard—Ted Rhodes, Charlie Sifford, Lee Elder, and
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COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure” Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Nnanna Onuoha Arukwe
The whole world was virtually not prepared for COVID-19. The medical remedy was understandably unavailable. So, Europeans, Americans, and similar regions of the world fell back on their traditional approaches to disruptive events of the type that COVID-19 represents. Many African countries would be largely led to mechanically copy the template of these other regions to varying degrees irrespective
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Book Review: The History of Black Studies Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Mark Christian
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Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Tarik A. Richardson
This article seeks to investigate Du Bois’ contributions to the development of an Afrocentric paradigm, the discipline of Africology, and his academic relationship with Africa; as both conceptual idea and as the ancestral motherland to Black people around the world. Furthermore, this article seeks to investigate the cultural location, or the paradigm in which Du Bois operates out of politically and
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Explaining Antithetical Movements to the Black Lives Matter Movement Based on Relative Deprivation Theory Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Glenn Lee Starks
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has galvanized citizens of all races, ethnicities, genders and ideologies in a common cause to protest racism. Its central focus is protesting continued racism against African Americans, but it has spurred a broader ideological demand for equality for all Americans. The movement does not seek Black dominance, but equal treatment in the justice system and general
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Toward a Socially Oriented Agricultural Model for Africa’s Renaissance Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Peter Narh
In this paper, African Renaissance is discussed from the perspective of new interests in African agriculture. Opportunities in Africa in agribusiness are growing. But accompanying this growth is a model of agriculture based on application of high technical inputs, under the narrative of agricultural intensification. However, there is evidence to suggest that new interests and practices toward harnessing
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Return to the Source: Cabral, Fanon, the Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization/Revolutionary Re-Africanization, and the African Renaissance Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Reiland Rabaka
In the most general sense, the African Renaissance entails Africans combatting the racialization, colonization, and neo-colonization of Africa and committing to the decolonization, re-Africanization, and liberation of Africa. When Amilcar Cabral and Frantz Fanon’s radical theory and revolutionary praxis (i.e., Cabralism and Fanonism, respectively) are placed into critical dialog a groundbreaking dialectic
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Becoming an Africana Activist Scholar: David C. Turner, III and Black Graduate Student Activism as Professional Development, A Case Study Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.
This article examines the lived experiences of Black graduate student activist David C. Turner, III. It explores his intellectual and academic development in his masters program at the University of Pennsylvania and doctoral program at UC Berkeley. It also explores Turner’s on and off campus activism, including his involvements in the Black Liberation Collective, Black Youth Project (BYP) 100, and
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Book Review: Black cultural mythology Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Tarik A. Richardson
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Black Bodies in America as the Metaphors for Oppression, Poverty, Violence, and Hate: Searching for Sustainable Solutions Beyond the Black-letter Law Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Williams Iheme
Black people in America have often been labeled outlaws, deviants, and nonconformists who are disinterested in complying with the laid down rules. However, from a long range experience dating back to slavery, they recognize that rules in the American context whether the Slave Codes, Black Codes, Jim Crows, or the contemporary law, are machinations of the legal system to perpetuate oppression and violence
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African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Lieketseng Yvonne Ned
Disability studies globally is concerned, in various ways, with questions of systemic injustices and inequities that persons with disabilities are subjected to. Persons with disabilities are often positioned as the objects of research rather than equal thinkers and knowledge bearers in their own right. These issues are amplified in the context of African societies, where access is even more challenging
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Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Sherrell Hicklen House
This study explored the adaptive behaviors used by African American college students attending a predominantly White university. In-depth individual interviews were conducted and used as the primary method of data collection for this study. In addition, a focus group session provided member checking opportunity to strengthen the study. The analysis revealed participants utilized multiple adaptive behaviors
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White Philanthropy Won’t Save Black Education: Tracing an “Ordinary” Segregated School’s Life in Delaware Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Brittany Lee Lewis, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway
This essay suggests examining “ordinary,” segregated Black schools from the past helps explain persistent issues in Black education at present. To demonstrate this point, the essay focuses on the shortcomings of philanthropy in education from the 1920s to the present day in Wilmington, Delaware. It asserts for Black education to thrive, a combination of adequate resources and Black control over those
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US Media, Selective Exposure, and the Promotion of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Black and Latino Communities Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Gregory Gondwe
Through selective exposure, this study examined the role the US news media played in encouraging or discouraging minority races from getting vaccinated. Through content analysis and focus groups, we were able to demonstrate that most media messages focused on prior beliefs in their reporting, therefore, discouraging the black and Latino minorities from getting the COVID-19 vaccinations. Further, while
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You Are What You Eat: Affirming Podcast and Subjective Wellbeing among African American Women Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Yatesha D. Robinson
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate whether intentional exposure to affirming messages via podcast would lead to improvement in subjective wellbeing in a sample of African American women. This two-part study used a mixed-methods design to measure subjective wellbeing using the Multicultural Quality of Life Index and a series of focus groups. During Phase 1, participants rated and
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HBCUs Matter: A Review of Behavioral Health at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Sara Beeler-Stinn, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf, Jenifer Van Schuyver
Nearly one-fourth of all undergraduate degrees received by Black students are from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). HBCUs have both historical significance and present-day relevance in the promotion of Black excellence in higher education, especially in the consideration of behavioral health. The purpose of this work is to examine the present state of research surrounding behavioral
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Technological Advocacy and Crime Reporting in an HBCU Setting: Addressing the Prospect of Legal Cynicism in the Ebony Tower Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Patrick Webb, Jason Chin, Cynthia-Lee Williams, Kimya Dennis
In comparison to white students, the study of Black student attitudes toward crime reporting on college campuses is deficient, especially in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Using approximately 100 completed student questionnaires, statistical results suggest that the majority of students express a willingness to report a campus-related crime to campus police. The highest reported
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I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Emmie Cochran-Jackson
Black male college graduation gaps pose critical questions for parents, teachers, policymakers, and the Black community. Black males face systemic challenges that derail them from higher education. This research, drawing on a larger study, investigated Black parental expectations, strategies, and activities used to cultivate academic success and foster the development of college aspiration in high
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Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education Journal of Black Studies (IF 0.856) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Angela Jackson-Brown
Within this paper, two Black women teaching at a predominantly white institution of higher education utilize critical co-constructed autoethnography to reflect on their experiences of using a Womanist approach to co-teach two capstone courses during a global pandemic. Womanism is an epistemology focused on the experiences and concerns of Black women. Using this collaborative inquiry technique, we explore