{"id":837,"date":"2015-02-15T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddce.utexas.edu\/aamri\/?p=837"},"modified":"2015-02-15T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T15:56:26","slug":"toward-a-new-narrative-on-black-males-education-and-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/toward-a-new-narrative-on-black-males-education-and-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward a new narrative on Black males, education, and public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown, A. L., &amp; Donnor, J. K. (2011). Toward a new narrative on Black males, education, and public policy.<em>Race Ethnicity and Education<\/em>,\u00a014(1), 17-32.<\/p>\n<p>This article examines the Black male crisis thesis promulgated by the social science literature, public policy, and mainstream discourse, respectively. The authors contend that the stock-story that the majority of African American males are &#8216;at-risk&#8217; for engaging in self-destructive behavior or on the verge of extinction perpetuates a discourse of Black male pathology, which leads to over-emphasis of behavior modification as a strategy for their collective improvement. Subsequently, de-emphasis on the historical and structural role of race as a life opportunity-shaping variable occurs, which renders an incomplete understanding of the social and educational status of Black males in the United States. As a result, public policies and social programs guided by this deficit discourse are unlikely to create meaningful change for this population, because society&#8217;s existing political economic structures are left unchallenged. The article concludes with the assertion that a &#8216;new narrative&#8217; is needed in order to rethink the complex and systematic ways the social and educational status of Black males in the United States are constructed. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]<\/p>\n<p>Full article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13613324.2011.531978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown, A. L., &amp; Donnor, J. K. (2011). Toward a new narrative on Black males, education, and public policy.Race Ethnicity and Education,\u00a014(1), 17-32. This article examines the Black male crisis thesis promulgated by the social science literature, public policy, and mainstream discourse, respectively. The authors contend that the stock-story that&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/toward-a-new-narrative-on-black-males-education-and-public-policy\/\" 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":[174],"tags":[76,875,786,873,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-policy-py","7":"tag-76","8":"tag-a-brown","9":"tag-at-risk","10":"tag-j-k-donner","11":"tag-status","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}