African Americans and education: Recent e-books
This guide is for those interested in African American education, both research and practice.
Recent e-books
- Brothers in grief: the hidden toll of gun violence on Black boys and their schools by Nora GrossPublication Date: 2024Brothers in Grief closely attends to the neglected victims of youth gun violence: the suffering friends and classmates who must cope, mostly out of public view, with lasting grief and hidden anguish. Sociologist Nora Gross tells the story of students attempting to grapple with unthinkable loss, inviting readers in to observe how they move through their days at school and on social media in the aftermath of their friends' and classmates' deaths. Gross highlights the discrepancy between their school's educational mission and teachers' and administrators' fraught attempts to care for students' emotional wellbeing.
- A forgotten migration: Black Southerners, segregation scholarships, and the debt owed to public HBCUs [digital] by Crystal R. SandersPublication Date: 2024A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could provide graduate opportunities for African Americans by creating separate but equal graduate programs at tax-supported Black colleges or by admitting Black students to historically white institutions. Most did neither and instead paid to send Black students out of state for graduate education. Crystal R. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way.
- Sharing the legacy and narrative leadership experiences of black women in education by Ashley N. Storman (Ed.); Destiny Reddick (Ed.)Publication Date: 2024Sharing the Legacy and Narrative Leadership Experiences of Black Women in Education invites readers to step into the shoes of black women as leaders in academia and education, providing an authentic and raw glimpse into their experiences. The book challenges societal workplace expectations and attempts to reshape conversations around how intersectionality cross-connects with diversity, equity, and inclusion. By intertwining powerful storytelling with compelling research, it seeks to dismantle the barriers that have hindered the progress of black women with a focus on offering relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest academic research.
- #BlackEducatorsMatter: the experiences of Black teachers in an anti-Black world by Darrius A. Stanley (Ed.); Kofi Lomotey (Afterword); H. Richard Milner (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2024The personal accounts, educator portraits, and research findings assembled by Darrius A. Stanley in #BlackEducatorsMatter constitute an unstinting exploration of the experiences of Black K-12 teachers in the United States. Spotlighting the invaluable work of Black educators, this volume reveals that although they are underrepresented in educational institutions, they have profound positive influence not only on students of color but also on school climate and ultimately on all of society.
- Autoethnographic tactics to closing the gap on educational attainment by Anika Chanell Thrower (Ed.); Alex Evangelista (Ed.)Publication Date: 2024Through their work, the co-editors are committed to promoting access to higher education and improving outcomes for marginalized populations. This essential resource is designed for scholars interested in promoting cultural awareness, equity, and diversity in higher education institutions, and it provides must-read perspectives for instructors teaching stress management courses, diversity and inclusion departments, campus sustainability departments, and others. This book offers a detailed analysis of the enrollment crisis, strategies to address its many sources, and is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about equity and access in higher education.
- Black and queer on campus by Michael P. JeffriesPublication Date: 2023Michael P. Jeffries shows that Black and queer college students often struggle to find safe spaces and a sense of belonging when they arrive on campus at both predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges and universities. Many report that in predominantly white queer social spaces, they feel unwelcome and pressured to temper their criticisms of racism amongst their white peers. Conversely, in predominantly straight Black social spaces, they feel ignored or pressured to minimize their queer identity in order to be accepted.
- Debunking the grit narrative in higher education: drawing on the strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students by Angela M. Locks; Rocío Mendoza; Deborah Faye CarterPublication Date: 2024Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines pressing structural issues currently impacting African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students accessing college and succeeding in U.S. postsecondary environments.
- Educating for equity and excellence: enacting culturally responsive teaching by Geneva Gay; James A. Banks (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2023In this collection of articles, Geneva Gay invites readers to make educational equity and excellence for all students a reality, not just an ethic or an ideal. Through teaching narratives and pragmatic examples, Gay illustrates that a combination of ideology, ethics, personal commitment, and praxis on the part of educators is essential to achieving equity for underachieving racial and ethnic minority students. The text is organized into three themes: Identity (how the identities and behaviors of educators are influenced by their membership in ethnic and cultural groups); Ideology (how the beliefs, attitudes, and expectations of educators shape their behaviors and instruction); and Action (suggestions for equitable teaching, classroom management, curriculum development, and teacher preparation).
- For the love of teaching : how minority serving institutions are diversifying and transforming the professionFor the Love of Teaching by Alice Ginsberg; Marybeth Gasman; Andrés Castro SamayoaPublication Date: 2023The authors detail how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)--nearly 800 colleges and universities across the nation that educate nearly 45% of all students of color--are preparing culturally proficient teachers using new methods centered on integrating culturally relevant pedagogy, creating a culture of belonging through faculty engagement and cohort models, enriching student teaching and clinical practice through residencies and school-university partnerships, and working closely with families and communities.
- The green book : for Black folks in education by Shawn F. BrownPublication Date: 2024The Green Book: For Black Folks in Education is a nonfiction book written for parents and educators to examine best practices for supporting Black children in schools. Dr. Brown addresses topics such as parenting, high expectations, unconscious bias, community, culture, and navigating the traditional American educational system. This book provides a professional and personal lens to view the experiences of Black children in schools.
- HBCU: the power of historically Black colleges and universities by Marybeth Gasman; Levon T. EstersPublication Date: 2024Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in promoting social and economic mobility for African Americans and in mentoring the next generation of Black leaders. In HBCU, Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters explore the remarkable impact and contributions of these significant institutions.
- Her truth and service: Lucy Diggs Slowe in her own words by Lucy Diggs Slowe; Amy Yeboah Quarkume (Ed.)Publication Date: 2024Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885-1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in the history of Black women's higher education. She was a builder of institutions, organizing the first historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, while a student at Howard University in 1908; establishing the first junior high school for Black students in Washington, D.C.; and founding as well as leading other major national and community organizations. In 1922 Slowe was appointed the first Dean of Women at Howard, making her the first Black woman to serve as dean at any American university.
- Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist by Ashley Robertson PrestonPublication Date: 2023This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women's organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor.
2024
- Child care justice: transforming the system of care for young children by Maurice Sykes (Ed.); Kyra Ostendorf (Ed.); Barbara T. Bowman (Foreword); William. Ayers (Series ed.); Therese Quinn (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2022This volume disrupts mental models regarding where the work of early care and education began--with enslaved African women--and how the stigma of that beginning relegates present-day child care workers to a low-status, low-wage field of practice. Expert authors contribute their wisdom, experience, research, and practical knowledge on issues related to equity and social justice.
- Making Black girls count in math education: a Black feminist vision for transformative teaching by Nicole M. Joseph; H. Richard Milner (Foreword); Erica N. Walker (Foreword)Publication Date: 2022Making Black Girls Count in Math Education explores the experiences of Black girls and women in mathematics from preschool to graduate school, deftly probing race and gender inequity in STEM fields. Nicole M. Joseph investigates factors that contribute to the glaring underrepresentation of Black female students in the mathematics pipeline.
- Pro-Blackness in early childhood education: diversifying curriculum and pedagogy in K-3 classrooms by Gloria Swindler Boutte; George Lee Johnson; Jarvais J. Jackson; Saudah N. Collins; Janice R. Baines; Anthony Broughton; George Lee Johnson; Joyce E. King (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024Drawing from a critical case study of K-3 teachers who use Pro-Black teaching in their daily instruction, this important book puts forth positive perspectives regarding Blackness and Black people that are not evident in most educational settings. An easy-to-understand text provides evidence-based curriculum examples, pedagogies, and resources; demonstrates how teachers can achieve Pro-Black teaching while also addressing curricular standards and other demands on their time; and explains the benefit of Pro-Black teaching for all children.
- Safe space rhetoric and race in the academy: a reckoning by James Gerard NoelPublication Date: 2023Safe Space Rhetoric and Race in the Academy: A Reckoning complicates discussions about safe space rhetoric and race in academia by providing provocative explorations of physical and intellectual safety and by examining the ways that the political landscape can reflect definitions of safety in America's school system.
- Sister resisters: mentoring black women on campus by Janie V. Ward; Tracy L. Robinson-WoodPublication Date: 2022Sister Resisters advances a robust model of mentorship in support of young Black women on campus. The book offers a multifaceted approach to cross-racial mentoring in higher education that promises growth and change for both mentees and their mentors.
- Successful pathways for the well-being of Black students by Fumane Portia Khanare (Ed.); Brenda L. H. Marina (Ed.)Publication Date: 2023Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses more on strength over weakness, inclusion over exclusion, health over neurosis, agency over passiveness, and future over the past of Black students' well-being. The book also articulates a vision for the kind of educational environment where Black students can thrive.
- Teaching humanities with cultural responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs by DuEwa M. Frazier (Ed.)Publication Date: 2024This compelling book is a testament to the power of collective insight, a comprehensive response to the pressing need for transformative educational practices. It offers an array of research-driven solutions, bridging the gap between conventional teaching methods and the diverse, dynamic realities of HBCU and HSI classrooms. The book deftly explores topics such as teaching ESL and EFL students, integrating accommodations for disabilities, embracing hip-hop pedagogies, and fostering social justice education.
- Teaching to live: Black religion, activist-educators, and radical social change by Almeda M. WrightPublication Date: 2024Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Many of these educators are known only or primarily for their educational theory or activism, and their religious convictions have often been obscured or outright ignored. Almeda M. Wright seeks to rectify this omission, exploring the connections between religion, education, and struggles for freedom within twentieth-century African American communities by telling the stories of key African American teachers.
- Tender violence in US schools : benevolent whiteness and the dangers of heroic white womanhood by Natalee Kehaulani BauerPublication Date: 2023Tender Violence in US Schools takes as a provocation this "discipline gap," in exploring a thus far unconsidered stance and asking how white women (the majority of US teachers) have historically understood their roles in the disciplining of Black and Indigenous students, and how and why their role has been constructed over time and space in service to institutions of the white settler colonial state.
- There are no deficits here: disrupting anti-blackness in education by Lauren M. WellsPublication Date: 2024School reform efforts have long dominated the educational landscape, but the fixes that characterize many school improvement initiatives swing on the hinges of deficit beliefs about Black students. This book calls for a disruption in these models and urges educators to take seriously the significance of beliefs and cultures within schools.
- To advance the race: Black women's higher education from the antebellum era to the 1960s by Linda M. PerkinsPublication Date: 2024From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women's post-Civil War experiences at elite white schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states.
- The unteachables: disability rights and the invention of Black special education by Keith A. MayesPublication Date: 2022The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. As African American children integrated predominantly white schools, many were disproportionately labeled educable mentally retarded (EMR), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally behavioral disordered (EBD). Keith A. Mayes charts the evolution of disability categories and how these labels kept Black learners segregated in American classrooms.
2023
- Black feminist epistemology, research, and praxis: narratives in and through the academy by Christa J. Porter; V. Thandi Sulé; Natasha N. CroomPublication Date: 2023"While there has been an increase of Black women faculty in higher education institutions, the academy writ large continues to exploit, discriminate, and uphold institutionalized gendered racism through its policies and practices. Black women have navigated, negotiated, and learned how to thrive from their respective standpoint and epistemologies, traversing the academy in ways that counter typical narratives of success and advancement. This edited volume bridges together foundational and contemporary intergenerational, interdisciplinary voices to elucidate Black feminist epistemologies and praxis."
- The cultural trap: ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youth by Derron WallacePublication Date: 2023In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of racial and ethnic minority youth in schools, including Black Caribbean young people in London and New York City.
- Merze Tate: the global Odyssey of a black woman scholar by Barbara D. SavagePublication Date: 2023Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world." Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.
- Vital and valuable: the relevance of HBCUs to American life and education by James V. Koch; Omari H. SwintonPublication Date: 2023In Vital and Valuable, two distinguished economists provide a groundbreaking analysis of HBCUs. James V. Koch and Omari H. Swinton give a balanced assessment of the performance of HBCUs, examining metrics such as admissions and enrollment trends, graduation and retention rates, administrative expenses, spending on intercollegiate athletics, and student debt. They emphasize the distinctive features that make HBCUs what they are, considering whom they serve and how, while contextualizing these institutions within the landscape of American higher education. Based on this analysis, Koch and Swinton offer actionable policy recommendations that can help HBCUs build on their successes and address their weaknesses.
2022
- African American leadership and mentoring through purpose, preparation, and preceptors by Henrietta Williams Pichon (Ed.); Yoruba Mutakabbir (Ed.); Alaric Williams (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022African American Leadership and Mentoring Through Purpose, Preparation, and Preceptors provides an exhaustive exploration of leadership and mentorship through purpose, preparation, and preceptors. This edited book explains how to identify ways that individuals can strengthen their career trajectory, determine strategies to employ for career advancement, establish lasting and impactful connections with key stakeholders per career aspirations, provide guidance for individuals seeking advancement within the academy, and explore current theoretical and practical nuances with regard to research, literature, and application of leadership and mentorship of African Americans in the academy.
- Anti-Blackness at school : creating affirming educational spaces for African American students by Tyrone C. Howard (Foreword); James A. Banks (Series ed.); Joi A. Spencer; Kerri UllucciPublication Date: 2022Embedded in everyday realities, the authors outline the many ways anti-Blackness shows up in schools. Drawing on more than 44 years of equity work, they provide concrete, doable, and meaningful ways in which teachers and administrators can create Black-affirming spaces.
- Black female leaders in academia: eliminating the glass ceiling with efficacy by Jennifer T. Butcher (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022Black Female Leaders in Academia: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence features full-length chapters authored by leading experts offering an in-depth description of topics related to the trajectory of Black female leaders in higher education. It provides evidence-based practices to promote excellence among Black females in academic leadership positions. The book informs higher education top-level administration, policy experts, and aspiring leaders on how to best create, cultivate, and maintain a culture of Black female excellence in higher education settings.
- Black women navigating historically white higher education institutions and the journey toward liberation by Stephanie R. Logan (Ed.); Tyra Good (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022Black Women Navigating Historically White Higher Education Institutions and the Journey Toward Liberation provides a collection of ethnographies, case studies, narratives, counter-stories, and quantitative descriptions of Black women's intersectional experience learning, teaching, serving, and leading in higher education. This publication also provides an opportunity for Black women to identify the systems that impede their professional growth and development in higher education institutions and articulate how they navigate racist and sexist forces to find their versions of success.
- The future of Black leadership in higher education: firsthand experiences and global impact by John A. Kuykendall; Dimitra Jackson Smith; Joy Jackson; Dantrayl LeShun Brady SmithPublication Date: 2022The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact provides experiences, narratives, and best practices that are more inclusive of Black faculty by providing them the opportunity to seek advancement in these critical roles. It presents critical knowledge about academic leadership for Black people and familiarizes readers with policies, practices, and procedures.
- The ivory tower: perspectives of women of color in higher education by Kimetta R. Hairston (Ed.); Tawannah G. Allen (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022The Ivory Tower: Perspectives of Women of Color in Higher Education highlights the voices of women of color in academia. When institutions ignore these voices by continuing to overlook the obstacles and experiences of women of color in higher education, they systematically derail their success. Hearing and understanding the firsthand accounts of women of color is a critical component in the recruitment, retention, and success of women of color.
- Jim Crow's pink slip: the untold story of black principal and teacher leadership by Leslie T. FenwickPublication Date: 2022Jim Crow's Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.
- Reckoning with racism in family-school partnerships: centering Black parents' school engagement by James A. Banks (Series ed.); Jennifer L. McCarthy FoubertPublication Date: 2022Drawing from the lived experiences of Black parents as they engaged with their children's K-12 schools, this book brings a critical race theory (CRT) analysis to family-school partnerships. The author examines persistent racism and white supremacy at school, Black parents' resistance, and ways school communities can engage in more authentic partnerships with Black and Brown families.
- Reimagining internationalization and international initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Krishna Bista (Ed.; Anthony L. Pinder (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022This book explores the internationalization policy, programs, and initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. This book addresses the value and impact of internationalization for all students at HBCUs and beyond. Internationalization can be leveraged as a tool for social justice and diversity thus moving students who are often placed at the periphery of society to the center. It also highlights the tensions between internationalization and institutional policies and priorities, while still serving, who have been historically marginalized.
- Talking college: making space for Black language practices in higher education by Anne H. Charity Hudley; Christine Mallinson; Mary BucholtzPublication Date: 2022Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial justice, both on college campuses and throughout society. Writing from a linguistics-informed, Black-centered educational framework, the authors draw extensively on Black college students' lived experiences to present key ideas about African American English and Black language practices. The text presents a model of how Black students navigate the linguistic expectations of college.
- The Tuskegee student uprising: a history by Brian JonesPublication Date: 2022In 1966, when one of their classmates was murdered by a white man in an off-campus incident, Tuskegee students began organizing under the banner of Black Power and fought for sweeping curricular and administrative reforms on campus. In 1968, hundreds of students took the Board of Trustees hostage and presented them with demands to transform Tuskegee Institute into a "Black University." This explosive movement was thwarted by the arrival of the Alabama National Guard and the school's temporary closure, but the students nevertheless claimed an impressive array of victories.
- Un-silencing youth trauma: transformative school-based strategies for students exposed to violence and adversity by Garo, Laurie A.Publication Date: 2022Although there are guidelines for trauma-sensitive approaches, few are culturally responsive. And it is now critical that educators consider the traumatic impacts of a dual pandemic (covid-19 and racism) on children and their education. This timely book thus serves to inform and inspire transformative healing and empowerment among traumatized children and youth in pandemic/post-pandemic school and after-school settings.
- Young, gifted and missing: the underrepresentation of African American males in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines by Anthony G. Robins (Ed.); Locksley Knibbs (Ed.); Ted N. Ingram (Ed.); Michael N. Weaver Jr. (Ed.); Adriel Hilton (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022The authors track the experiences of African American male students in STEM at every level of the educational system in order to produce successful models of achievement. The number of African American males who enroll in STEM degree programs as opposed to the lower numbers that ultimately graduate portends poorly for U.S. communities and democracy.
2021
- About centering possibility in Black education by Chezare A. Warren; William Ayers (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2021Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners. Inspired by the "freedom dreaming" of activists in the Black radical tradition, the book is comprised of nine principles that clarify how centering possibility actively refuses limitations for what Black people can create, accomplish, and achieve.
- The beauty and the burden of being a black professor by Cheron H. Davis (Ed.); Adriel A. Hilton (Ed.); Ricardo Hamrick (Ed.); F. Erik Brooks (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Including personal essays written by Black professors, this volume showcases personal insights and inspirational stories from leading Black scholars across the US. It highlights and problematizes the uncomfortable truth of the lack of diversity in many higher education institutions in order to further discussions on the topic of race in academia, and to assist academics of color in preparing for their careers.
- Black educational leadership: from silencing to authenticity by Rachelle Rogers-Ard; Christopher B. KnausPublication Date: 2021This book explores Black school leadership and the development of anti-racist,purpose-driven leadership identities. Recognizing that schools within the United States maintain racial disparities, the authors highlight Black educational leaders who remain in leadership trajectories so that they can transform school systems. With a focus on thirteen school leaders, this volume demonstrates how schools exclude African American students, and the impacts such exclusions have on Black school leaders.
- Black Marquette in their own words: overcoming obstacles and achieving success by Valerie Wilson Reed (Ed.); George Lowery (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Black Marquette is a compilation of essays written by Black Marquette alumni regarding their unique Marquette experiences.
- Creating a home in schools: sustaining identities for black, indigenous, and teachers of color by Francisco Rios; A. Longoria; James A. Banks (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2021The authors of this book provide caring advice to Black, Indigenous, and Teachers of Color (BITOC) to help sustain them into and through the teaching profession. Through an examination of BITOC in the education workforce, the assets that these educators bring to the teaching profession are identified, as are some of the most critical challenges they face in today's schools.
- The equity and social justice education 50: critical questions for improving opportunities and outcomes for Black students by Baruti K. KafelePublication Date: 2021The Equity & Social Justice Education 50 will help you understand the importance of having an equity mindset when teaching students generally and when teaching Black students in particular. It defines social justice education and sheds light on the issues and challenges that Black people face, as well as the successes they've achieved, providing you with a pathway to infusing social justice education into your lesson plans.
- The healing power of education: Afrocentric pedagogy as a tool for restoration and liberation by Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver; Greg Wiggan; Joyce E. King (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021Situating the African American learning experience within the stream of historic enslavement and hundreds of years of institutionalized racism, this timely book introduces antiracist foundations for teaching in the 21st century. The authors take a holistic approach that uses Afrocentricity to identify and address critical omissions and distortions in school curricula. Drawing on empirical findings from a high-performing 100% African American school, they identify what teachers and students recognize as successful features of the schools' approach, including a unique learning environment, support systems, spiritual affirmations, evidences of Black education, a reframing of Afrocentricity, and education that promotes positive Black identity.
- Plantation politics and campus rebellions: power, diversity, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education by Bianca C. Williams (Ed.); Dian D. Squire (Ed.); Frank A. Tuitt (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.
- Point of reckoning : the fight for racial justice at Duke University by Theodore D. SegalPublication Date: 2021In Point of Reckoning, Theodore D. Segal narrates the contested fight for racial justice at Duke from the enrollment of the first Black undergraduates in 1963 to the events that led to the Allen Building takeover and beyond. Segal shows that Duke's first Black students quickly recognized that the university was unwilling to acknowledge their presence or fully address its segregationist past.
- Race, class, gender, and immigrant identities in education: perspectives from first and second generation Ethiopian students by Adrienne Wynn; Greg Wiggan; Annette Teasdell; Marcia J. Watson-VandiverPublication Date: 2021This volume addresses the underlying intersections of race, class, and gender on immigrant girls' experiences living in the US. It examines the impact of acculturation and assimilation on Ethiopian girls' academic achievement, self-identity, and perception of beauty. The authors employ Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Afrocentricity to situate the study and unpack the narratives shared by these newcomers as they navigate social contexts rife with racism, xenophobia, and other forms of oppression.
- Radical care: leading for justice in urban schools by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen; Jamaal A. Bowman (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Latinx children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public schools, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen outlines the five components of radical care: adopting an antiracist stance, cultivating authentic relationships, believing in students' and teachers' capacity for excellence, leveraging power strategically, and embracing a spirit of radical hope.
- Strong black girls: reclaiming schools in their own image by Danielle Apugo (Ed.); Lynnette Mawhinney (Ed.); Afiya Mbilishaka (Ed.); Adrienne Dixson (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America. This edited volume amplifies the routinely muffled voices and experiences of Black women and girls in schools through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The authors make clear that the strength of Black women and girls should not merely be defined as the ability to survive racism, abuse, and violence.
- Struggling to learn: an intimate history of school desegregation in South Carolina by June M. ThomasPublication Date: 2021Through poignant personal narrative, supported by meticulous research, Thomas retraces the history of Black education in South Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the present. Focusing largely on events that took place in Orangeburg, South Carolina, during the 1950s and 1960s, Thomas reveals how local leaders, educators, parents, and the NAACP joined forces to improve the quality of education for Black children in the face of resistance from White South Carolinians. Thomas's experiences and the efforts of local activists offer relevant insight because Orangeburg was home to two Black colleges-South Carolina State University and Claflin University-that cultivated a community of highly educated and engaged Black citizens.
- What success looks like: increasing high school graduation rates among males of color by Marck AbrahamPublication Date: 2021Black males have the lowest graduation rates of any population in the country, graduating from high school at the rate of just 59%. They are suspended and referred to special education classes at rates three times higher than any other population. They make up just 6% of the US population yet account for nearly a third of the American prison population. The graduation gap between White and Black males is currently 21% and growing. Research has shown that costly federal, state, and local programs have failed to solve this crisis. This book details the 10-step method the author developed and deployed in the Buffalo (New York) high school of which he was principal, which has raised the four-year graduation rate for Black males to 93% and the five-year rate to 90%.
2020
- African Americans in higher education: a critical study of social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture by James L. Conyers (Ed.); Crystal L. Edwards (Ed.); Kevin B. Thompson (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020This book critically examines African Americans in higher education, with an emphasis on the social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture. This is a critical interdisciplinary study, one which explores the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in the field of higher education.
- Black Americans in Higher Education by James L. Conyers, Jr. (Ed.)Publication Date: 2020Narrating the realities of teacher burnout, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, Black Americans in Higher Education, the eighth volume of Africana Studies, explores higher education across the United States as inextricably related to contemporary issues facing African Americans.
- The campus color line: college presidents and the struggle for Black freedom by Eddie R. ColePublication Date: 2020Although it is commonly known that college students and other activists, as well as politicians, actively participated in the fight for and against civil rights in the middle decades of the twentieth century, historical accounts have not adequately focused on the roles that the nation's college presidents played in the debates concerning racism. Based on archival research conducted at a range of colleges and universities across the United States, The Campus Color Line sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.
- Campus counterspaces: Black and Latinx students' search for community at historically White universities by Micere KeelsPublication Date: 2020Tracking a cohort of more than five hundred Black and Latinx students since they enrolled at five historically white colleges and universities in the fall of 2013 Campus Counterspaces finds that these students were not asking to be protected from new ideas. Instead, they relished exposure to new ideas, wanted to be intellectually challenged, and wanted to grow. However, Keels argues, they were asking for access to counterspaces--safe spaces that enable radical growth.
- Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early Years by Sandra SmidtPublication Date: 2020At a time of growing evidence of racism across many countries and cultures, Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early Years will help those working with young children recognise racism, name it for what it is and help their young pupils understand that difference is nothing to be feared.
- Creating the suburban school advantage: race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis by John L. RuryPublication Date: 2020Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere.
- Excluded by choice: urban students with disabilities in the education marketplace by Federico R. Waitoller; Alfredo J. Artiles (Foreword, Series Ed.)Publication Date: 2020Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies. Offering significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion, the text illustrates the actual challenges and paradoxes of school choice faced by today's parents.
- Exploring single black mothers' resistance through homeschooling by Cheryl Fields-SmithPublication Date: 2020This book expands the concept of homeplace with contemporary Black homeschooling positioned as a form of resistance among single Black mothers. Chapters explore each mother’s experience and unique context from their own perspectives in deciding to homeschool and developing their practice.
- Girls and women of color in STEM: their journeys in higher education by Nahed Abdelrahman; Beverly J. Irby; Julia Ballenger; Barbara PolnickPublication Date: 2020"The 11 chapters in this book provide a glimpse into the journeys that women from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian, African-American, American Indian, and Latina"
- High Achieving African American Students and the College Choice Process by Thandeka K. Chapman; Frances Contreras; Eddie Comeaux; Eligio Martinez Jr; Gloria M. RodrigiezPublication Date: 2020For African American students, unequal education is rooted in the history in the legacy of slavery and of the history of institutional and structural racism in United States. The long legacy of racism in education cannot be dismissed when reflecting on the college choice experiences of African American students made today.
- The innocent classroom: dismantling racial bias to support students of color by Alexs PatePublication Date: 2020When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, disconnection, and other barriers to their success. In The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate traces the roots of these disparities to pervasive negative stereotypes, which children are made aware of before they even walk through the school door.
- Lean semesters: how higher education reproduces inequity by Sekile M. NzingaPublication Date: 2020In Lean Semesters, Sekile M. Nzinga argues that the corporatized university--long celebrated as a purveyor of progress and opportunity--actually systematically indebts and disposes of Black women's bodies, their intellectual contributions, and their potential en masse. Insisting that "shifts" in higher education must recognize such unjust dynamics as intrinsic, not tangential, to the operation of the neoliberal university, Nzinga draws on candid interviews with thirty-one Black women at various stages of their academic careers.
- Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy by April Baker-BellPublication Date: 2020Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts.
- Making School Integration Work by Paul Tractenberg; Allison Roda; Ryan Coughlan; Deirdre DoughertyPublication Date: 2020Many American schools continue to struggle with segregation. This important book tells the story of how two school districts--one a predominantly White and wealthy suburban community and the other a more diverse and urbanized community--were merged into a single district to work toward a solution for school segregation.
- Measuring race : why disaggregating data matters for addressing educational inequality by Robert T. Teranishi (Editor); James A. Banks (Series edited by); Cynthia M. Alcantar (Editor); Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen (Editor); Edward R. Curammeng (Editor)Publication Date: 2020The United States demography is changing rapidly. How are we capturing these shifts? Do the racial categories that exist accurately represent the individuals who fall into them? Have long-standing categories hindered our understanding of racial inequality?
- Steeped in the blood of racism : Black power, law and order, and the 1970 shootings at Jackson State College by Nancy K. BristowPublication Date: 2020Taking place just ten days after the killings at Kent State, the attack at Jackson State never garnered the same level of national attention and was chronically misunderstood as similar in cause. This book reclaims this story and situates it in the broader history of the struggle for African American freedom in the civil rights and black power eras.
- Unconscious bias in schools: a developmental approach to exploring race and racism by Tracey A. Benson; Sarah E. Fiarman; Glenn E. Singleton (Foreword by)Publication Date: 2020In Unconscious Bias in Schools, two seasoned educators describe the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools. In order to address this bias, the authors argue, educators must first be aware of the racialized context in which we live. Through personal anecdotes and real-life scenarios, Unconscious Bias in Schools provides education leaders with an essential roadmap for addressing these issues directly.
- Undermining racial justice: how one university embraced inclusion and inequality by Matthew JohnsonPublication Date: 2020Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often a key talking point in national debates about racial justice thanks to the contentious Gratz v. Bollinger 2003 Supreme Court case, Johnson argues that UM leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values.
- Understanding the intersections of race, gender, and gifted education: an anthology by and about talented black girls and women in STEM by Nicole M. JosephPublication Date: 2020"This book seeks to understand the complexities of talented and high-performing Black girls and women in STEM across the P-20 trajectory. Analogously, this volume aims to understand the intersections between giftedness, its identification, and racial, gender, and academic discipline identity.
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