{"id":1719,"date":"2016-03-03T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.utexas.edu\/black-male-education-research\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2016-03-03T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:05:21","slug":"we-didnt-let-the-neighborhood-win-black-male-students-experiences-in-negotiating-and-navigating-an-urban-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/we-didnt-let-the-neighborhood-win-black-male-students-experiences-in-negotiating-and-navigating-an-urban-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Didn\u2019t Let the Neighborhood Win\u201d: Black Male Students\u2019 Experiences in Negotiating and Navigating an Urban Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooms, D. R. (2015). \u201cWe Didn\u2019t let the neighborhood win\u201d: Black male students\u2019 experiences in negotiating and navigating an urban neighborhood.<em> The Journal of Negro Education, <\/em><em>84<\/em>(3), 269-281.<\/p>\n<p>The current study relies on in-depth interviews with twenty Black males who graduated from Du Bois Academy (pseudonym), an urban, all-boys public charter secondary school and explores their educational perceptions and experiences. In particular, the author examines the interplay between students\u2019 in-school experiences and navigating a disadvantaged urban neighborhood. \u00a0Using student narratives as a guide, the findings reveal that the urban neighborhood confronts these students with an ongoing litany of challenges that have a significant impact about how they think about themselves and school. \u00a0The students accent how their masculine identities mattered and identify employing resilience to maintain and enhance their academic aspirations. \u00a0This research provides an opportunity to investigate how schools might help students&#8217; self-actualization, resilience, and persistence.<\/p>\n<p>Access to full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7709\/jnegroeducation.84.3.0269?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooms, D. R. (2015). \u201cWe Didn\u2019t let the neighborhood win\u201d: Black male students\u2019 experiences in negotiating and navigating an urban neighborhood. The Journal of Negro Education, 84(3), 269-281. The current study relies on in-depth interviews with twenty Black males who graduated from Du Bois Academy (pseudonym), an urban, all-boys public&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/we-didnt-let-the-neighborhood-win-black-male-students-experiences-in-negotiating-and-navigating-an-urban-neighborhood\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"underline\">read more<\/span>&nbsp;<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,41],"tags":[1158,1657,380,98,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-1719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-masculinity-studies-ms","7":"category-urban-education-ue","8":"tag-1158","9":"tag-derrick-r-brooms","10":"tag-experiences","11":"tag-perceptions","12":"tag-resilience","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}