Ladson Billings, G. (2011). Boyz to men? teaching to restore black boys’ childhood. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 14(1), 7-15. Many schools see teaching African American boys as a daunting challenge. However, in many schools the primary focus of Black male children’s educational experience is maintaining order and discipline rather than student learning… read more
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I Didn’t Know There Were Black Cowboys
McNair, J. (2014). I Didn’t Know There Were Black Cowboys. YC: Young Children, 69(1), 64-69. Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) is a Clemson University-based teacher-recruitment initiative to increase the number of elementary school teachers from diverse backgrounds in South Carolina, with a special emphasis on African American… read more
Caught between theory and reality: positionality of a Black male teacher in urban Detroit
Khalifa, M. A. (2012, Fall). Caught between theory and reality: positionality of a Black male teacher in urban Detroit. Vitae Scholasticae, 29(2), 5+. “Over a century ago, John Dewey, and his contemporaries and critics, wrangled over the extent to which educators should focus on an intractable, static curriculum, or on a… read more
“I See Trayvon Martin”: What Teachers Can Learn from the Tragic Death of a Young Black Male
Love, B. L. (2014). “I See Trayvon Martin”: What Teachers Can Learn from the Tragic Death of a Young Black Male.Urban Review, 46(2), 292 – 306. The goal of this article is to examine the racially hostile environment of U.S. public schooling towards Black males. Drawing on the work of Foucault… read more