Historically, education research and practice has failed to accentuate the factors that promote Black student success and, instead, produced deficit-centered narratives that focused on Black students' academic underachievement and challenges. These dominant narratives have negatively influenced Black students' experiences and there is a need for…

This article takes a critical approach to unsettling the apathy around Black girls' and women's mathematics achievement and participation. I discuss how prevailing narratives about White girls and women, as well as Black boys and men, make the existence of coherent narratives of Black girls and women in mathematics essentially impossible. I argue…

Since its founding in April 1932, "The Journal of Negro Education" has published articles, reports, and reviews examining the results of intelligence and other mental tests given to African Americans. In these studies, historically social scientists contributing to the "JNE" sought to clarify what these intelligence tests were…

Traces the history of Euro-American resistance to the realities of an ethnically plural society. Reforms to teacher education and public education are needed to respond to requirements of a nation of increasing pluralism. Cultural scholarship and the active political participation of people of color are essential. (SLD)