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Jonathan Evan Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The antiblack past and present of institutions of higher education, more specifically community colleges, coupled with the resistance and perseverance of Black communities, has not only had a direct impact on Black student success, but also currently impacts the lived experiences of Black employees. To that end, the goal of this study was to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African Culture, African Languages, Coordinators
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Gammage, Justin; Gammage, Marquita – Journal of Negro Education, 2020
In an attempt to contribute to the advancement of Africana Studies as a discipline, it is vital that scholars of the field continue to assess the effectiveness of the various departments under the umbrella of Africana Studies. This research explores and assesses the departmental activities of two Africana Studies departments within the California…
Descriptors: African Studies, Black Studies, Departments, Intellectual Disciplines
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Lyndon-Cohen, Dan – Teaching History, 2021
In this article, Dan Lyndon-Cohen makes the case that history departments should move from diversifying the curriculum to decolonising it. After reflecting on some examples of how he made the content of his lessons more representative, he explores how the influence of writers such as Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Emma Dabiri inspired him to find…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Course Content
La Quirshia Fennell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
At present, California community colleges serve a large proportion of Black students, but these students are not adequately supported to reach their educational goals (The Campaign for College Opportunity, 2019; National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2022; Cross & Carman, 2022 Simpson, J., & Bista, K., 2021). Extensive research…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Space Utilization, School Space, Blacks
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Hackett, Cedric D.; Lo, Sheba – Journal of Negro Education, 2018
This investigative engagement study explored the relationship between self-reported well-being indicators among students at an urban university in southern California and sought to identify variables that predict engaged learning among students who enroll in Africana Studies courses. This study used a correlational design involving an online…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Learner Engagement, Afrocentrism, Well Being
Alexis Thrower – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While existing literature has extensively documented interracial stereotypes faced by Black individuals, this study delved into the lesser-explored realm of stereotypes emanating from within the Black community itself. This dissertation explored the experiences of Black female college students in predominantly white educational environments,…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Blacks, African American Students
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Morales, Erica – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2021
Black students are often tasked with negotiating racial microaggressions--subtle, racialized offenses--at historically White colleges and universities. Higher education scholarship has found that when Black students speak up in response to racial microaggressions, they tend to feel overburdened with having to educate the offending party. This…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Bias, Racial Composition, Whites
James, Tenisha Celita – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study focused on the cultural congruity and academic self-concept of African American students in a community college setting who participated in a Black Culture Center. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between cultural congruity and academic self-concept through the following two research…
Descriptors: African American Students, Community Colleges, Self Concept, Two Year College Students
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Martin, Tabitha; Capel, Mandy – Leadership and Research in Education, 2014
All three of us, the authors, are white and do not speak Ebonics, (or African American Language, AAL). How the misperceptions of AAL impact our students inspired our interest in the subject. The title of this piece refers to the ubiquity of AAL, historically, culturally, as an influential cultural wellspring. Although AAL continues to influence…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, African American Culture, Misconceptions, Language Variation
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Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students' language was scaffolded such that they could code…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Culture, At Risk Students, State Standards
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Bethea, Sharon L. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2012
The present investigation considers the program outcomes of one community youth project, Leadership Excellence Inc., Oakland Freedom Schools. Oakland Freedom Schools are culturally relevant 6-week summer Language Arts enrichment programs for primarily inner-city African American youth aged 5 to 14 years. In this study, 79 African American youth…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Freedom, Social Action, Individual Development
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Nasir, Na'Ilah Suad; Ross, Kihana Miraya; McKinney de Royston, Maxine; Givens, Jarvis; Bryant, Jalessa N. – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this empirical study, the authors draw on classroom observations and interviews with twenty-three Black male ninth graders in an urban district to focus on the nature of disciplinary practices in an all-Black, all-male manhood development class. While scholars have identified the "discipline gap" as a salient aspect of the experience…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Student Behavior, African American Students, Males
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Turner, K. C. Nat; Hayes, Nini, Visaya; Way, Kate – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This article features key findings from a study that highlights the transformative impact of a pedagogical approach that employs Critical Multimodal Hip Hop Production (CMHHP). The study took place in an extended day program in a northern California public middle school among a group of 30, urban, African American, Chicano/a/Latino/a, and Asian…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Popular Culture, Music, Teaching Methods
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Jayakumar, Uma M.; Vue, Rican; Allen, Walter R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this article, Uma Jayakumar, Rican Vue, and Walter Allen present their study of Young Black Scholars (YBS), a community-initiated college preparatory program in Los Angeles. Through in-depth interviews and surveys with twenty-five middle- and higher-income Black college students, they document the positive role of community in facilitating…
Descriptors: College Preparation, African American Students, Interviews, Surveys
Coleman, Beverly – Black World, 1970
Discusses the usage of Swahili and other languages in Africa and outlines an experimental college curriculum for teaching Swahili and related AFrican studies. Includes a bibliography of available texts in the area. (JM)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, African Literature, Black Studies
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