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
Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States Teacher Workforce
Newton, T. (2013). Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States Teacher Workforce. Journal Of Negro Education, 82(3), 351-353. […]the readers will find this volume to be useful for practice, research, and the development and implementation of policy strategies and real programmatic initiatives. According to these authors, teaching across gender is a process… read more