Dawkins, M. P. (1980). Educational and Occupational Goals: Male versus Female Black High School Seniors. Urban Education, 15(2), 231-242. No Abstract. Full article can be found here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0042085980152007
Employment and education: African American teenage males, 1970–1990
Chaplin, D. D. (1995). Employment and education: African American teenage males, 1970–1990. Journal of African American Men, 1(1), 23-35. The labor force participation of African American teenage males declined substantially during the 1970s, while that of their white counterparts rose. This pattern caused great concern among policy makers and analysts. This paper… read more
Descendants of “Ruth:” black Girls Coping Through the “Black Male Crisis”
Brown, A. F. (2011). Descendants of “Ruth:” black Girls Coping Through the “Black Male Crisis”. The Urban Review, 43(5), 597-619. This article presents the complex relationship between how black male and female identities have been constructed dichotomously in response to the gender framed “crisis” in black America. The ethnographic research study was… read more
Occupational/Educational Discrimination Against Black Males
Niemi, A. W. (1978). Occupational/Educational Discrimination Against Black Males.Journal of Black Studies, 9(1), 87-92. This article details occupational differences between black and white males, and it develops a measure of racial discrimination that analyzes the relative ability of blacks and whites to find occupations commensurate with their education. Full article can… read more