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This important book explores the diverse answers to questions posed about the educational achievement of African American males. Leading scholars in the field of Urban Education share their unique approaches to this serious issue. ... Read more

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The contributors start with the premise that the failures of many black male students has already been emphasized, they are now looking for ways to cure the problem.They peel the onion asking about elementary school, high school, extracurriculars, athletics, teacher expectations, etc.The contributors are both male and female (and possibly African-American, Afro-Latino, and African).The cover is lovely.

I do think men's studies can stand on its own, but throughout this book, I kept asking myself, "Well, what about black girls?!"If black boys and girls live under the same conditions, why are only the males falling behind in school?Nancy Lopez addresses this in her excellent book, "Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys."However, the researchers here ignore that question.Too often, the contributors compare black males to white males, but not to their female counterparts.This book did make me think differently on all-(black)male schools.In law school, I was taught that those schools are highly illegal and violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act.However, here, they imply that black boys look at schools as being feminine and thus zone out.Maybe there is some reason to show black boys that academic success and masculinity do not have to be at odds.

This book is not really for John and Jane Doe Teacher.This is rigorous research meant for policy wonks and statisticians.While reading this, you have to sift through the summarizations of past studies and glean info about how to better serve black male students.The authors repeat that some black males and black schools are doing well, but they don't explain why.This book is frustrating in that it has no road map which says, "In order to raise academically talented black male students, follow steps A through Q."I know the problem won't be cured overnight, but the answers from these chapters are still somewhat frustrating. ... Read more

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While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K-12 literacy educators can use to transform their schools. The text addresses four major debates: the fight for access to literacy; supports and roadblocks to success; best practices, theories, and perspectives on teaching African American students; and the role of African American families in the literacy lives of their children. Throughout, the authors highlight the valuable lessons learned from the past and include real stories from their own diverse family histories and experiences as teachers, parents, and community members. ... Read more

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This highly readable collection draws together Smitherman's ost important articles and essays, spanning a period from 972 to the present day, and includes an autobiographical iece entitled From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist. ... Read more

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Explains that English is more than just words in a dictionary
I checked this book out of a library to do a report and found a wealth of information on communication, culture, the history of English and how languages change over time. ... Read more

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Through examining the meanings and experiences of the six young men in this study, we can expand our understanding of the complexities of the lives of African-American men and simultaneously challenge seemingly unidimensional images of black men. ... Read more

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This is the only book currently on the market that addresses African American issues in education, special education, and related human service fields. With the increased demographics of children of color in schools and the decrease in African Americans pursuing teaching careers coupled with the social and political changes and the overrepresentation of minorities in special education and the court system, this is the book that brings and enlightening and broad perspective on student-teacher mismatches; clashes and misrepresentations of behavior, language and learning differences.This new resource describes the language of African American children, contrasts it from disordered communication, and recommends practical applications for working with African American children in the classroom. It discusses the controversial language of Ebonics and concludes that it is a separate language.All educators and speech-language pathologists, and anyone working with African American children in an educational setting. ... Read more

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I decided to get this book because I'm in a culturally-focused SLP program, and besides this, it's important to consider the issues that are relevant to the diagnosis and treatment among this demographic.The book contains information regarding culture, bias and educational concerns.It's been a great resource for many-a research paper, and I know that it will come in handy in my clinical practice. ... Read more

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This book is about the unique educational experience of anAfrican American segregated Catholic school in Mississippi from 1910 -1975. The school was founded and administered by nuns and priests from religious orders founded in Germany. This account focuses on the period between the 1940s to the 1960s which included a description and historical perspective of how despite the American apartheid system in operation in Mississippi at that time, one Catholic school with committed teachers and dedicated parents was successful in educating African American children. The story recounted here is not about the despair of growing up in Mississippi but about how a quality educational experience yields great outcomes when the goals of parents, teachers and the educational programs are intertwined. The significance of this book can be found in the power of integrating sound teaching, high expectations and strong parental support. Lessons learned from this educational experience has implications for the effective education of today's African American children as well as a model of success for broader and more heterogeneous student populations. ... Read more

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In this book, Deborah Faye Carter studies the individual and institutional factors affecting the degree aspirations--the dreams--of White and African American college students through the use of two, national, longitudinal databases of college students.One sample had older students, more students attending two-year institutions and students from a wider range of backgrounds and experinces.The other sample was more traditional-aged, and the students tended to have more postsecondary institutional choices.The use of both databases (and therefore both samples) informed the understanding of degree aspirations that the use of only one database could not since the students in each sample attended different kinds of institutions and had different kinds of college experiences.The results of the study show how complex relationships of the factors that affect aspirations between the two samples and between African American and White students in each sample.

This book contributes to higher education's theoretical understanding of the meritocratic and constraining influences on students' degree aspirations.Further, this study examines the processes that unqiuely affect African American college students in comparison to White students and how these processes differ in a traditional student sample versus a sample that is more representative of the diverse postsecondary institution attendees across the country.Finally, there are a number of implications for practice from this study including institutional programming to support studetns' goals and for institutions to continue to examine the impact of financial aid support on sutdents deciding whether they can attend college, and whether they can afford to earn a graduate degree. ... Read more

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This book documents the critiques and theorizings that working-class African-American women have drawn from their educational experiences. Based on a study of five African-American females enrolled in an employer-sponsored workplace speech and language training program, the book presents lessons learned from participants' efforts to negotiate effects of race, class, and gender discrimination both in and out of school. Particularly relevant to the field of education, participants provide insighton the roles of teachers and schools, instruction, expectations, motivation, race and education, educational experiences at work, and relevant educationto inform and help effect change.

Because of its interdisciplinarity, Sisters of Hope, Looking Back, Stepping Forward is an asset for a variety of courses that seek to be inclusive of the educational experiences and theorizings of marginalized groups. Its insights on race, class, gender, marginalization, and inequality are relevant to courses in areas such as African-American studies, womens studies, ethnic studies, multicultural education, sociolinguisticsblack Englishes, history, oral history/autobiography, communication, and religion. ... Read more

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Something Better for Our Children examines the critical role blacks played in organizing the Chicago school reform in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. Although many people focus on the current Chicago school reform efforts, there must be a clear understanding of the roots of that effort which took place in the 1960s, and this title provides just that. ... Read more

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This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs. They were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century Black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that illuminate Cooper and Burroughs' "unique angle of vision of self, community, and society" as it relates to their distinctive educational philosophies and contributions to American education. ... Read more

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Western-educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963: The African American Factor proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya. These historic leaders considered the struggle to eliminate racism and shed the yoke of colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and America as one fight against one common enemy, the European. Their efforts resulted in the development of the American-educated Asomi in Kenya. I wrote this book to provide a historical perspective on development of western-educated Kenyans. The work is divided into five chapters that consist of an examination of Traditional, Islamic, Missionary, and government education and the subsequent higher education that Kenyan students received in the United States prior to returning to their homeland. It is written for advanced undergraduates, graduated students, and historians, who already possess a general knowledge about Kenyan history, but want a deeper understanding of the global influence of the Pan-African movement in the first half of the twentieth century.This text depicts the commonalities that existed between Africans and African-Americans during their fights for independence and equality. ... Read more

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Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation, Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US.

By closely examining the rapidly shifting social context of education, and the emerging literature by and for African-American women during the 1890s, Murdy proves that the histories of education and literature are deeply connected and argues that their current lives must be regarded as mutually dependent.

Teach the Nation offers a new understanding of literacy and pedagogical study and identifies how literary history enhances current feminist and anti-racist teachings. By excavating notions about education in the 1890s-as turbulent a time for American public education as today-Murdy asks readers to step back from this historical moment to better understand the contexts and institutions within which we theorize learning and teaching. In doing so, she compels readers to reimagine the potential for gaining social power through education and literature. ... Read more

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This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students, teachers, and community members. Using interview data with 44 former teachers in three North Carolina counties, college and university archival materials, and secondary historical sources, the author argues that "Jim Crow’s teachers" remember from hidden transcripts—latent reports of the social world created and lived in all-black schools and communities—which reveal hidden social relations and practices that were constructed away from powerful white educational authorities. The author concludes that the national memory of "inherently inferior" all-black schools does not tell the whole story about legally segregated education; the collective remembering of Jim Crow’s teachers reveal a critique of power and a fight for respectability that shaped teachers’ work in the Age of Segregation.

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This book provides a lucid argument into one of the centraltenets of modern American politics and social life. ... Read more

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Readers Theatre for African American History features a collection of twenty scripts covering a comprehensive span of history from Africa before the transatlantic slave trade through current events in our nation. In participating in these scripts, students will listen to storytellers from Africa and share the rich oral tradition about wealthy explorers who came to the Americas from Africa before Columbus. They'll experience such events as Emancipation Day on the South Carolina Sea Islands, the founding of the North Star by Frederick Douglass, and the extraordinary 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert by Marian Anderson. They'll attend an imaginary political convention where they'll meet our nation's first five African American U.S. Senators, including Senator Barack Obama. African American history is rich with opportunities for creative learning. This book brings them alive. Grades 4-8

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I am a student teacher and got this because I had to put together a unit for Black History Month for my students.It worked really well, the kids enjoyed it and got really creative with costumes, etc.I am really glad I got it and it lends itself well to language arts, social studies, science etc. ... Read more

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Each topic in this 2-volume encyclopedia is discussed as it relates to the education of African Americans. The entries provide a comprehensive overview of educational institutions at every level, from preschool through graduate and professional training, with special attention to historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities. The encyclopedia follows the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality in education-beginning among an enslaved population and evolving into the present-as the efforts of many remarkable individuals furthered this cause through court decisions and legislation.

A unique appendix, “The Complete Bibliography of the Journal of Negro Education, 1932-2008,” includes listings of the tables of contents and reprinted articles on segregation, desegregation, and equality.

Key Features

• Highlights individuals, organizations, and publications that have had a significant impact on African American education
• Incorporates discussions of curriculum, concepts, theories, and alternative models of education that facilitate the learning process
• Addresses the topics of gender and sexual orientation, religion, and the media

Key Themes

• Alternative educational models
• Associations and organizations
• Biographies
• Collegiate education
• Curriculum
• Economics
• Gender
• Graduate and professional education
• Historically Black colleges and universities
• Legal cases
• Precollegiate Education
• Psychology and human development
• Public policy
• Publications
• Religious institutions
• Segregation/Desegregation

The encyclopedia is valuable resource for students, educators, and scholars of education-and all readers who seek an understanding of African American education, both historically and in the 21st century.

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Her Rite of Passage presents a complete curriculum that shows you what to do to design and carry out a successful African-centered rites program from start to finish. This guidebook will help you: understand the rites of passage process, incorporate African-centered rituals and interactive activities into your program, develop a better understanding of the social and cultural orientation of African-American girls, facilitate weekly rap sessions and plan and organize the initiation retreat and crossover ceremony.

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The chapters inCultural Capital and Black Educationdemonstrate that"cultural capital" in various forms became a major resource historically forthe funding of African American schools and other educational activitiesand programs. African Americans were willing to contribute their time,energies, and financial and material resources to support these educationalinstitutions because they knew they were important for the advancementof African Americans as a group. ... Read more

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A most helpful perspective for all teachers
The authors enable readers to weave African American Vernacular English into standard English in such as way as to imagine that such mingling can be the basis for powerful writing by those who ordinarily use AAVE, unlike many of us who have not developed an "ear" for it.

This text is a mind-opener, and yet compelling in its presentation. ... Read more