Black Men in Higher Education

Black Men in Higher Education
Author: J. Luke Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134699182

Black Men in Higher Education bridges theory to practice in order to better prepare practitioners in their efforts to increase the success of Black male students in colleges and universities. In this comprehensive but manageable text, leading researchers J. Luke Wood and Robert T. Palmer highlight the current status of Black men in higher education and review relevant research literature and theory on their experiences in various postsecondary education contexts. The authors also provide and contextualize innovative, actionable strategies and solutions to help institutions increase the participation and success of Black male college students. The most recent addition to the Key Issues on Diverse College Students series, this volume is a valuable resource for student affairs and higher education professionals to better serve Black men in higher education.

Index to Black Periodicals 2003

Index to Black Periodicals 2003
Author: GK Hall
Publisher: G. K. Hall
Total Pages: 916
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780783804934

This classic, one-volume reference work now indexes more than 35 journals, both popular and scholarly, representing the rich culture and current history of African Americans. Among the topics treated in each edition of the annual Index are gender issues, literature, education, business, discrimination, health care and the arts. Interviews, obituaries and book and drama reviews are also included. The Index is international in scope, including African countries and regions, but its emphasis is on the extraordinary diversity of the African American experience. Authors, subjects and numerous cross-references are combined in a single, convenient alphabetical arrangement. The Index formerly appeared under the titles "Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes" and "Index to Selected Periodicals By and About Negroes." G.K. Hall published a ten-year cumulation of the "Index" covering the years 1950-1959 and began publishing the "Index" on an annual basis in 1961. The volumes from 1961 forward were published in conjunction with The Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio; The New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History also participated during the years 1960-1970. In mid-1984, G.K. Hall assumed editorial responsibility for the "Index. " Periodicals indexed include: "About Time African American Pulpit, The African American Review Afro-Americans in New York Life and History American Legacy American Visions Black Enterprise Black Issues in Higher Education Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir Black Scholar Callaloo CLA Journal V Crisis Ebony Emerge Equity and Excellence in Education Heart & Soul Howard Journal of Communications International Review of African-American Jet Journal of Black Psychology, The Journal of Black Studies Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Journal of Negro Education MultiCultural Review Muslim Journal National Black Law Journal Obsidian III Public Culture Race and Class Research in African Literatures Review of Black Political Economy Transition Upscale Vital Issues Western Journal of Black Studies, The"

Lynchings in Mississippi

Lynchings in Mississippi
Author: Julius Eric Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007
Genre: Lynching
ISBN:

"Studies lynching in Mississippi from the Civil War through the civil rights movement. Arranged chronologically, it examines how lynching unfolded in the state, and assesses the large number of deaths, reasons, the distribution by counties, cities and rural locations, and public responses. Covers lynching's legacy in the decades since 1965, and an appendix offers a chronology"--Provided by publisher.

Self-Taught

Self-Taught
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807888974

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.