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
Motivation
‘Building Us Up’: Supporting Black Male College Students in a Black Male Initiative Program
Brooms, D. R. (2018). ‘Building Us Up’: Supporting Black Male College Students in a Black Male Initiative Program. Critical Sociology, 44(1), 141–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920516658940 Efforts to enhance the academic performances and educational experiences of Black males in college has exploded in the past 15 years, including institutional, state, system-level, and national programs, policies,… 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
Artifacts and the Academic Motivation of African American Male Athletes
Bailey, E., & Fuller, R. (2018). Artifacts and the Academic Motivation of African American Male Athletes. Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation, (5), 1-14. This study sought to examine to examine the academic motivations of African American male college athletes at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). Self-determination… read more