McGee, E. O., & Pearman II, F. A. (2015;2014;). Understanding black male mathematics high achievers from the inside out: Internal risk and protective factors in high school. The Urban Review, 47(3), 513-540. The gendered and racialized narrative of Black male adolescents in urban spaces is one often fraught with deficit-based… read more
Urban Education (UE)
Discursive Positioning in a Fifth-Grade Writing Lesson: The Making of a “Bad, Bad Boy”
Collins, K. M. (2011). Discursive positioning in a fifth-grade writing lesson: The making of a “Bad, bad boy”. Urban Education, 46(4), 741-785. In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson… read more
I Know Who I Am, Do You?: Identity and Academic Achievement of Successful African American Male Adolescents in an Urban Pilot High School in the United States
Wright, B. L. (2011). I know who I am, do you?: Identity and academic achievement of successful african american male adolescents in an urban pilot high school in the united states. Urban Education, 46(4), 611-638. This study explores racial-ethnic identity and academic achievement of five young African American men in… read more
“Making Space” for Ourselves: African American Student Responses to Their Marginalization
Venzant Chambers, T. T., & McCready, L. T. (2011). “Making space” for ourselves: African american student responses to their marginalization. Urban Education, 46(6), 1352-1378. Drawing from two separate case studies, one on lower track African American students and another on gay and gender nonconforming African American male students, this article… read more