Educating Black Males

Educating Black Males
Author: Ronnie Hopkins
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1997-01-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438407041

Educating Black Males: Critical Lessons in Schooling, Community, and Power offers insights into how we can create more effective and empowering schools and classrooms for Black males. In addition, it examines the larger social reality of American African males and analyzes theoretical contexts of educational theory and practice in alternative education programs and crisis intervention strategies for Black males. It promotes strategies for enhancement of self-esteem and motivation for learning in Black males, thereby analyzing power relations in the classrooms, schools, and community. It is designed as a resource for those concerned with helping American African males to break free from and defy negative stereotypes and fatalistic imaging.

How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality

How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality
Author: Loretta J. Brunious
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1998
Genre: African American teenagers
ISBN: 9780815332350

In a pilot study applying Berger and Luckmann's social construction of reality framework, Brunious (Loyola U., Chicago) elicits perceptions about school, popular culture, and mass media from 20 Chicago inner- city black teens. Refuting the still prevalent myth that poor African- American youth suffe

Ebony

Ebony
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1991-09
Genre:
ISBN:

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought
Author: Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040125174

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers. It implores readers to integrate the research of Black scholars into their teaching and research, and fundamentally, to rethink the dominant epistemological claims and philosophical underpinnings of the Western social sciences. The volume features 50 chapters, written by 55 scholars who explore the diverse contributions of notable Black thinkers, both historical and contemporary. Four thematic areas organize this work—Black epistemology, Black geopolitics, Black oppression and resistance, and Black families and communities. Through a close analysis of the fifty thinkers presented here, the chapters explore these themes while dismantling the whitewashed disciplinary histories, methodologies, and content that obscure and/or subjugate the significance of Black social thought. In addition to offering insightful and timely analysis, each chapter offers suggested readings for readers who would like to dive deeper into the work of Black social thinkers. This volume offers an accessible starting point for exploring the work of Black scholars past and present and their contributions to sociology and the social sciences more broadly. It is useful to students, academics, practitioners, and the lay public who are curious about Black social thought.

Constructing Social Reality

Constructing Social Reality
Author: Loretta Brunious
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351226924

This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.

In a Classroom of Their Own

In a Classroom of Their Own
Author: Keisha Lindsay
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-07-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252050401

Many advocates of all-black male schools (ABMSs) argue that these institutions counter black boys’ racist emasculation in white, “overly” female classrooms. This argument challenges racism and perpetuates antifeminism. Keisha Lindsay explains the complex politics of ABMSs by situating these schools within broader efforts at neoliberal education reform and within specific conversations about both "endangered” black males and a “boy crisis” in education. Lindsay also demonstrates that intersectionality, long considered feminist, is in fact a politically fluid framework. As such, it represents a potent tool for advancing many political agendas, including those of ABMSs supporters who champion antiracist education for black boys while obscuring black girls’ own race and gender-based oppression in school. Finally, Lindsay theorizes a particular means by which black men and other groups can form antiracist and feminist coalitions even when they make claims about their experiences that threaten bridge building. The way forward, Lindsay shows, allows disadvantaged groups to navigate the racial and gendered politics that divide them in pursuit of productive—and progressive—solutions. Far-thinking and boldly argued, In a Classroom of Their Own explores the dilemmas faced by professionals and parents in search of equitable schooling for all students—black boys and otherwise.

You Can Only Be as Great as You Think You Can Be

You Can Only Be as Great as You Think You Can Be
Author: Cornell Thomas
Publisher: Winston-Derek Publishers
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994-12-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781555235970

Motivational theories and personal visioning are part of the new paradigm developed by the author for social and academic success.