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African American Heritage and Legacy: Implications on the Current Armed Forces Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28
Abstract America recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of the military, and while some might boast that the Black population within the military (around 17%) is more representative than the Black population in America (around 12%), there is still more that should be done to promote equity in armed service in the USA. Of course, such representation is positive, but it does not
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Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Institutional Oppression and Intersectionality Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Injung Lee, Eunae Han
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Exploring the Discipline Gap: Is School Bonding Protective Against Suspension for Black Girls? Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Alexia Angton
A growing body of literature has shown that Black girls are disciplined at disproportionate rates compared to their peers. However, less is known about factors that may protect Black girls from experiencing exclusionary discipline. Utilizing a critical quantitative methodology and guided by critical race feminism and social bonding theories, I conducted logistic regression analyses using data from
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Racial Identity Profiles and Indicators of Well-Being in Suicidal African American Women Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Jonathan C. Blassingame, Natalie N. Watson-Singleton, Josephine Au, Yara Mekawi, Ciera B. Lewis, Nadiya L. Ferdinand, Taylor E. Wilson, Sarah E. Dunn, Nadine J. Kaslow
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“Exploring Your Family Roots”: The Association Between Tracing Family Roots and Psychological Well-Being among African Americans Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Harvey L. Nicholson
This study addresses the question of whether there is an association between tracing family roots and indicators of psychological well-being among African Americans, specifically self-esteem, mastery, and feelings of hopelessness. Data from a nationally representative sample of African Americans was used for this analysis. The findings of the bivariate regression models showed that having traced one’s
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The Productive Possibilities of black-ish: An “Honest” View of Black Middle Classness in the Domestic Sitcom Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Gretta Blackwell
Upon its premiere in 2014, ABC’s black-ish introduced network television audiences to a unique representation of Black middle-class (BMC) life that defies existing norms in the genre of domestic situation comedy. To make sense of the significant cultural work the series performs, this article introduces a new framework for categorizing how we understand televisual representations of Black middle classness—through
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Burnout Among the Millennial Generation Working Within a Helping Field Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DeAvila S. Ford
Millennials are the burnout generation. To understand the multiple components connected to burnout in the millennial generation, specifically those working in a helping field, and how to combat burnout symptoms, the researcher interviewed eight participants in various careers. A qualitative, phenomenological research design was utilized through a Zoom interview of ten questions. The interviews were
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400 Years? Ancestors Disappear! Historical Misorientation and Disorientation in the Year of Return and the 400 Years Narrative Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Ọbádélé Kambon, Lwanga Songsore, Joseph Aketema
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Relational Help-Seeking Among Newlywed African American Couples Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Kadija S. Mussa, Zamzam Dini, Chalandra M. Bryant
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Seeking Counseling Services: A Phenomenological Study of African American Women Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-21 LaToya D. Smith, Casey A. Barrio Minton, LaKaavia Taylor, Eric W. Price
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Career Mobility For Black Professionals: Mentorship as an Underground Railroad Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Duane A. Williams, Rahjaun Gordon, Pearl Stewart
Career mobility for Black individuals may appear individualistic, ignoring the collectivistic endeavor involved to achieve success. This qualitative study explored participants’ mentorship relationships, analogous to the underground railroad system, as it relates to navigating their careers. Participants, who are Black professionals in various career fields, detailed how the support provided by their
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Exploring the Relationship Between Faculty Mentor Engagement and African American STEM Persistence Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Pheather R. Harris, Barry Nagle
This quantitative study explores factors associated with the persistence rates of African American students aspiring to major in STEM subjects and who ultimately complete undergraduate STEM degrees. The primary data source for this study is the Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s 2009 The Freshman Survey (TFS) and the 2013 College Senior Survey (CSS). The sample included 379 African American
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Ain’t No Achievement Gap: Anti-Literacy Laws and the Literacy Divide Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-16 David L. Sandles
Well-known in educational circles is the terminology that encapsulates the achievement discrepancy between white and Black students. The so-called achievement gap, the signature language used to represent the different achievement levels, challenges educators everywhere to find best practices to attend to the needs and interests of Black students. With dubious beginnings, the achievement gap arguably
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Gideon Edward Smith: The Player and Coach Who Gave Meaning to Black College Football, 1892–1942 Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Marvin T. Chiles
This article argues for Gideon Edward Smith’s admission into the College Football Hall of Fame. He was the first black football player at Michigan State University, contributing to football’s popularity among black men in the early twentieth century. As a coach at Hampton Institute, Smith built the first black football powerhouse program in the 1920s. Smith was also black football’s first apologist
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Life Stress, Depression, and Religious Coping Among Low-Income African American Women Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Ivonne Andrea Florez, Natalie N. Watson-Singleton, Jennifer P. Wootten, Rachel Hershenberg, Avante J. Smack, Sarah E. Dunn, Nadine J. Kaslow
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Using Nail Salons, Beauty Spas, and Hair Salons for Health Education with Black Women Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Ashlee Dixon, Eldria Earls, Maya Handberry, Brianna Moon, Lindsay Smith, Krista Mincey
A historical lack of access to healthcare and the mistreatment of Black women among those in the medical field have contributed to the health disparities against this group today. Based on existing health disparities affecting Black women, this study examined the feasibility of using nail salons, beauty salons, and hair salons as an avenue for health education efforts for Black women. An online survey
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Race and Poverty Deconcentration Initiatives: The Salience of Race in Subsidized Housing Redevelopment in Chicago Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Cameron Williams, Twyla Blackmond-Larnell, April Eddie
Various programs and policies have been implemented to deal with concentrated poverty, especially in public housing developments located in urban centers across the nation (Goetz, 2003). The programs aim to move public housing residents to lower-poverty areas or to bring in higher-income individuals when the developments are redeveloped into mixed-income communities. Numerous studies that assess poverty
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Afrofuturistic Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s Paradise Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Maryam AL-Shawaf, Mahmoud Zidan
Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997) is a contemporary African American novel that has often been interpreted as either utopian, dystopian, or a gothic piece of literature. Scrutinizing the non-linearity of time in Paradise and connecting it to the historical events at the time the novel was written, we wish to highlight Morrison’s criticism of Eurocentric utopian traditions. Furthermore, we emphasize Morrison’s
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Cultivating Social Justice Citizens: Practicing Reformed Democratic Deliberation, Dissent, and Counternarrative in the Classroom Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Elsheika Pennerman
The recent surge in debates and legislation banning Critical Race Theory and other curricular reform that require reflection on historical racial injustices have challenged students and educators to live double lives. The exclusion of public discourse on social and political matters from the classroom further encourages the notion of educational institutions as silos of society encased in a thick glass
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What If Race Was For Real For Real Real? How I Would Teach It Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Daudi Ajani ya Azibo
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Striking the Tip of an Iceberg: A Critical Analysis of School Discipline and African American Special Education Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Andrew Payne, Shaun Burr
The purpose of this literature review is to discuss past histories regarding minority groups and their disproportionate representation in special education. Data consistently illustrates African American students are among the highest disproportionately represented in special education. This racial gap extends beyond African American students and includes Hispanic and American Indians. A consistent
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Re-Conceptualizing the Black Student Movement in the Black Activist-Intellectual Tradition: A Case Study in Los Angeles, 1965–1975 Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-20 M. Keith Claybrook
This article examines Black student activism in the context of the Black activist-intellectual tradition. It explores activism as a form of learning. Examining the Black Student Movement in Los Angeles from 1965 to 1975 in the context of student engagement and high impact educational practices reveals that (1) it is appropriate to analyze the Black Student Movement, and related social movements, in
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ReAfricanizing for Black Student Success: The Maroon Model Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Kofi LeNiles, Kmt G. Shockley
This study of a Maroon community (MC) is focused on culturally centered educational practices and the need to transmit an African-oriented culture to Black students to increase educational and cultural relevance. We wanted to know what can be drawn from MC that may have utility for Black children in the USA. The findings include the need for teaching that reconceptualizes socialization processes for
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Reassessing Non-economic Benefits: the Black Metropolis and Regional Variation in Blacks’ Cultural Expression Employment Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Robert L. Boyd
Addressing issues overlooked in previous research, the present study examines regional variation in blacks’ opportunities to become artists, musicians, entertainers, and writers in the early twentieth-century USA. Census data analyses show that blacks’ odds of employment in these cultural expression occupations were substantially similar in the respective Black Metropolises of the North, Border region
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Passionate Love: A Study of Older African American Couples Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Kadija S. Mussa, Chalandra M. Bryant, Doneila McIntosh
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Only the Ques Would Debate Malcolm X: the Civil Rights Movement’s Big Six and the Safe Distance at Which They Kept America’s Foremost Militant Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Judson L. Jeffries
This article examines the relationship between the Honorable Minister Malcolm X and the modern Civil Rights Movement’s Big Six. Despite being experienced orators and highly educated champions of Black people, the dedicated soldiers that comprised the Big Six not only vehemently disagreed with Malcolm X’s position on self-defense but also refused to debate him on the merits of a nonviolent strategy
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Africana Digital Pedagogy: Cultural Exchange, Learning, and Innovation Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Clarence George, Shingi Mavima, Ja’ La Wourman
This project was created to illuminate the role and value of digital platforms for the Africana community. This research project was exploratory in that the primary researchers had an unclear idea of how the collected response provided by the participants would correlate and interact with the general hypothesis of Africana digital pedagogy (ADP). We surveyed 56 individuals from different segments of
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The Student Strike that Won Ethnic Studies and Black Student College Admissions Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Kitty Kelly Epstein, Bernard Stringer
This article explores the student strike which won Ethnic Studies and Black college student admissions. The San Francisco State Strike of 1968 which shut down the campus for five months was unique in its vision, its intensity, its class composition, its strategies, and its relationship to both the Black community and non-Black student organizations. The event is significant because the creation of
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Kukumirwa Semombe Dzamavhu: When Voices Begin to Erupt from Bottoms, African Anthropology Becomes Colonial Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Artwell Nhemachena
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New Immigration Policy Proposal (NIPP) for America. Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Charles E Campbell
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"It’s a Job Living Here": A Qualitative Exploration of Information Motivation and Behavioral Skills (IMB) Related to Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Among Middle-class African Americans Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Erica C. Spears, Idethia S. Harvey, Caryn N. Bell, Jeffrey J. Guidry
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“Warring” Ideals: Black Citizenship and the Struggle for Inclusion in the USA Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Denise N. Obinna
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“They Lived There because They Were Poor and Black”: Spatial Injustice in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Paola A. Nardi
This essay aims to investigate the function of urban space in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye through the approach proposed by cultural geographers, such as Edward Soja, David Harvey, and Don Mitchell, who link space with questions of justice/injustice. At the same time, the essay considers some valuable insights of Black Geographies scholars like George Lipsitz, who argues that an analysis of the relations
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Afro-European Pan-Africanism: A Twenty-First Century Black Europeans’ Mobilizations Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Omar Dieng
When Pan-Africanism is not historicized by reflecting on its beginning towards the mid-twentieth century, its nowness is usually attached to the African continent. In other words, a twenty-first-century understanding of Pan-Africanism remains exclusively tied to the African continent, specifically leaving out Afro-diasporic subjects and even more so Afro-Europeans. In this paper, I provide reasons
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How the Jezebel Stereotype has been Weaponized Against Black Girls and Made Them Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking: An Examination of Carceral Public Systems Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Jacquelyn C. A. Meshelemiah
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Black Critical Theory in Action: Analyzing the Specificity of (Anti)Blackness Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Bakari A. Wallace
Given authors’ Michael Dumas and kihana m. ross’ delineation of Black critical theory in the field of education, also referred to as BlackCrit, I extend this framework to areas of community practice to demonstrate its practical value for interpreting the mechanics of black social life beyond the discipline of education. To underscore its value as both a theoretical and analytical framework, mirroring
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Black People Narrate Inequalities in Healthcare Systems that Hinder COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from the USA and the UK Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Ifeanyichukwu Anthony Ogueji, Benie McDenisa Demoko Ceccaldi, Maia Makeda Okoloba, May Maloba, Adebayo O. Adejumo, Olabanjo O. Ogunsola
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented global health emergency. As a novel condition, there is no known definitive treatment for the condition, except for the use of vaccines as a control measure. In the literature, the issue of inequalities in healthcare systems has been documented as a hindrance to COVID-19 vaccination; however, the specific inequalities in healthcare
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African American Women’s Representations on Television Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Tia C. M. Tyree, Aisha Powell
Despite advances in technology that have eliminated or drastically reduced the impact of some traditional media in the US society, television has largely adapted from a small selection of traditional networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC to hundreds of cable networks and online streaming platforms, including Netflix and Hulu. The objective of this study was to explore the prevailing stereotypes within African
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Internalized Racism and Gendered Colorism Among African Americans: a Study of Intragroup Bias, Perceived Discrimination, and Psychological Well-being Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Trinity Alexander, Michele M. Carter
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White Supremacy’s Horcrux and Why the Black Power Movement Almost Destroyed It Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Marcus D. Watson
Written to recapture the original purpose of Africana Studies, this analytic essay starts with an observation of US social movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Our culture highlights that which is associated with the classical Civil Rights Movement, when Africans called themselves Negro and freedom was equated with integrating into white society. What is left silent or disparaged is the subsequent Black
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Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere
Clay feet are heavy and disabling, sadly in the decolonial scholarly battlefield which otherwise requires all-weather feet suitable for ongoing battles. Drawing on autoethnographic experiences in some African universities and drawing on Melanesian cargo cults, this paper argues that to decolonise Africa, African academics should abate cargo cult mentalities which account for pathological and uncritical
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Agency, Growth, and Ownership on African Soil: an SFL Analysis of a World History Textbook Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Kanushri Wadhwa
The persistent narratives favoring dominant groups make it necessary to investigate the way these groups are portrayed in textbooks, which though they are meant to provide neutral information, often have an agenda that disempowers individuals from marginalized groups. This systemic functional linguistics text analysis of 362 passages of a world history textbook’s sections on African participants asks
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How does Maya Angelou perceive the African female body? Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Hanaa Khalifa, Bacem A. Essam
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Marriage as a Factor in Self-determination for West African Women Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Pearl Stewart, Harshi Shah, Kani Diop
Using qualitative methodology, 49 West African immigrants were interviewed for this study. This study examined the ways in which marriage influenced the lives of West African women. Analysis of these data supported the continued importance of marriage in the lives of West African Women, specifically, it revealed marriage as (1) a key to female identity; (2) a pathway to motherhood; and (3) a mechanism
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones: The Opera Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Joy McCorriston,Judson L. Jeffries
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Liberate Your Mind: Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah’s Influence on Contemporary Pan-African Consciousness in the USA Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Mjiba Frehiwot, Chy McGhee, Harriet Boateng Aduako
This article interrogates the influence of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah on the development of contemporary Pan-African consciousness in the USA. The research occurred between December 2018 and January 2020 in Accra Ghana, Washington, DC, and the San-Francisco Bay Area. The study included in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and participatory observation at Pan-African events such as Kwanzaa, PANAFEST
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The Struggle for Survival in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century African American Women’s Autobiography: Black Women’s Narrative of Incarceration and Freedom Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-15 NaTosha Briscoe
This study examines the kinship between the female slave narrative and the writing of the female political prisoner during the Black Power Movement. The notion of imprisonment and escape has played an important role in the genre of African American Autobiography since its beginnings in the slavery era. To sustain this premise, this work will employ comparative analysis, which explores the constructional
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I Need a Distinction Between the Good in Me and the Not as Good in Me: Black Adolescent Girls’ Binary Use of Instagram and Its Impact on Identity Expression Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Lydia Williams
This study qualitatively explores how social media influences the identity expression of adolescent Black females. A pilot study revealed some teens have two Instagram accounts, a “Main,” or “real” Instagram account, and a “Finsta,” or “fake” Instagram account. Six Black girls from high schools throughout New York were selected for participation using convenience sampling. Thematic analysis of account
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Power to the People: Using Black English and Rap to Empower Students Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-09 David L. Sandles
While some lament and disparage the use of Black English (BE), particularly in educational spaces, the purpose, power, and pragmatism of BE are elucidated in this manuscript in an effort to bring all educators into the knowledge of its potency and richness. Using Gee’s work on primary and secondary discourse as a foundation, this manuscript offers a chronology of BE, discusses its impact and usage
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“Crusade” for African American Civil Rights: Female Rhetoric and Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Nitesh Narnolia, Naresh Kumar
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells is the inspirational autobiography of an African American civil rights leader and black feminist. Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in 1862, witnessed the Reconstruction era after the Civil War in the USA, the battle of suffrage, the World War I, and its aftermath. In her autobiography, she documents her individual struggle, her accomplishments,
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Bradley, Stefan. (2021). Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy Leagues Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Kevion White
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Reimagining Black Womanhood: Frances E. W. Harper’s “New Negro Woman” Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Ayesha Siddiqa
Despite being considered a key text in African American literary history especially after its reevaluation in the 1980s, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper has generally been dismissed by critics for its aesthetic and political accommodationism, bourgeois didacticism, and alleged historical amnesia. Most of these critical evaluations focus exclusively on Iola’s character
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“People Think It’s Easy Because I Smile, But It’s Not Easy”: The Lived Experiences of Six African American Single Mothers Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Shaniqua J. Bradley, Sara E.Goldstein
Grounded in Resilience Theory (Masten et al., 1990; Walsh, 1996; Walsh, 2002; Walsh, 2003) with a specific focus on parental resilience (Gavidia-Payne et al., 2015), this qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of low-income Female adult single parent (FASP) families. Each family had at least one adolescent aged 11 through 21 enrolled in special education classes and engaging
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Affective Orientation and School Persistence Among African American Youth: Implications for Afrocentric Youth Research and Practice Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Husain Lateef, Lauara Brugger, Donte Boyd, Adrian Gale, Ed-Dee Williams
Completion of high school is a critical juncture predicting future success among adolescents. However, Black youth are often subjected to structural and micro-manifestations of structural barriers in schools, hindering their success. Moreover, research on resiliency factors associated with the academic success of Black adolescents facing structural barriers is woefully underdeveloped. In response,
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Gates Jr., Henry L. (2021) The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Julius McIntyre
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Affective Orientation and School Persistence among African American Youth: Implications for Afrocentric Youth Research and Practice Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Husain Lateef, Laura Brugger, Donte Boyd, Adrian Gale, Ed-Dee Williams
Completion of high school is a critical juncture predicting future success among adolescents. However, Black youth are often subjected to structural and micro-manifestations of structural barriers in schools, hindering their success. Moreover, research on resiliency factors associated with the academic success of Black adolescents facing structural barriers is woefully underdeveloped. In response,
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Writing Instruction at the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Benjamin, Destiny Joilene
To address the inadequate education that Black students were receiving in public schools, the Black Panther Party (BPP) opened its first liberation schools in June 1969, modeling them after the Mississippi Freedom Schools of the modern Civil Rights Movement. The most prominent of these schools was the Oakland Community School (OCS). Although OCS had an ephemeral existence from 1971 to 1982, the school
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Moore, Leonard N. (2021): Teaching Black History to White People Journal of African American Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Zoe M. Van Gyseghem