Tatum, A. W. (2003). All” degreed” up and nowhere to go: Black males and literacy education. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 620-623. Tatum focuses on the literacy of Black males in the US. Blacks are disproportionately represented in the categories of special-needs students and low-achievers and their high school drop out rates… read more
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Toward a more anatomically complete model of literacy instruction: A focus on African American male adolescents and texts
Tatum, A. W. (2008). Toward a more anatomically complete model of literacy instruction: A focus on African American male adolescents and texts. Harvard Educational Review, 78(1), 155-180. In this article, Alfred Tatum argues that the current framing of the adolescent literacy crisis fails to take into account the in-school and out-of-school challenges… read more
Orienting African American Male Adolescents toward Meaningful Literacy Exchanges with Texts
Tatum, A. W. (2014). Orienting African American Male Adolescents toward Meaningful Literacy Exchanges with Texts.Journal of Education, 194(1), 35. Drawing from a sociohistorical understanding of the roles of texts for African American males and data from a recent survey of teens’ meaningful experiences with texts, the author provides a general understanding… read more
The Influence of Cultural Capital Transmission on Reading Achievement in African American Fifth Grade Boys
Harris, T. S., & Graves Jr., S. L. (2010). The Influence of Cultural Capital Transmission on Reading Achievement in African American Fifth Grade Boys. The Journal of Negro Education, 79(4), 447-457. Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K) were used to examine the relationship between cultural capital transmission and reading… read more