Brooms, D. R., Clark, J. S., & Druery, J. E. (2020). “We Can Redefine Ourselves”: Enhancing Black College Men’s Persistence Through Counterspaces. Journal of Black Studies. Black college men are constantly repositioned in higher education discourse as problems and in crises. However, there is much to be learned from… read more
Achievement (AC)
Where Are the African American Males? Enrollment Criteria and the Placement of African American Males in Advanced Placement Courses
Lackey, D., & Lowery, K. (2020). Where Are the African American Males? Enrollment Criteria and the Placement of African American Males in Advanced Placement Courses. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085920959133 This qualitative study was a critical race analysis of Advanced Placement criteria and under-enrollment of African American males in two midwestern… read more
‘Push through everything’: using phenomenological inquiry to investigate how Black males’ socioecology and identities promote perseverance in the U. S. public education system
Dawn X. Henderson, Samuel Baxter, Berdine Gordon-Littréan, Jacqueline Bingham Flemmings & Christen Edwards (2020) ‘Push through everything’: using phenomenological inquiry to investigate how Black males’ socioecology and identities promote perseverance in the U. S. public education system, Race Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2020.1798383 Black males in the United States’ public education system must navigate… read more
“I Was Just Trying to Make It”: Examining Urban Black Males’ Sense of Belonging, Schooling Experiences, and Academic Success
Brooms, D. R. (2019). “I Was Just Trying to Make It”: Examining Urban Black Males’ Sense of Belonging, Schooling Experiences, and Academic Success. Urban Education, 54(6), 804–830. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916648743 This qualitative study investigated the schooling experiences of 20 young Black men who graduated from Douglass Academy, an all-boys public charter secondary school in… read more