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How Community College Staff Inflict Pervasive Microaggressions: The Experiences of Latino Men Attending Urban Community Colleges in Texas
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García-Louis, Claudia; Sáenz, Victor B.; Guida, Tonia – Urban Education, 2023
In this qualitative research study we illustrate how implicit biases held by college personnel hinders the educational success of Latino men attending urban community colleges in Texas. In particular, we identify how often well-intentioned educators are (un)aware of how often they perpetrate racial microaggressions against Latino men. Interviews…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Personnel, Barriers, Hispanic American Students
From "Problems" to "Vulnerable Resources:" Reconceptualizing Black Boys with and without Disability Labels in U.S. Urban Schools
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Proffitt, William A. – Urban Education, 2022
In this article, I propose a critical, alternative framing of Black boys, asserting that Black boys are vulnerable resources rather than problems. Black boys are susceptible to racist and ableist practices and discourses, and they deserve special protection and services in school that do not position them as "in need of repair." Despite…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Urban Schools, Racial Bias
Success in These Schools? Visual Counternarratives of Young Men of Color and Urban High Schools They Attend
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Harper, Shaun R. – Urban Education, 2015
The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence. Similarly, across all schooling contexts, most of what has been written about young men of color continually reinforces deficit narratives about their educational possibility.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Males, Adolescents
"A Fly in the Ointment": African American Male Preservice Teachers' Experiences with Stereotype Threat in Teacher Education
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Scott, Sonya V.; Rodriguez, Louie F. – Urban Education, 2015
This study draws from a larger phenomenological study on African American academic persistence and career aspirations in education. This article highlights three African American males' experiences with concentrated forms of stereotype threat in teacher education. Their voices revealed dimensions of how power and privilege operate in teacher…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, African American Students, Academic Persistence, Occupational Aspiration
A Motivational Intervention for African American Boys Labeled as Aggressive
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Graham, Sandra; Taylor, April; Hudley, Cynthia – Urban Education, 2015
A 12-week, 32-lesson afterschool intervention was conducted with third-to fifth-grade urban African American boys classified as aggressive. Grounded in attribution theory and organized around the construct of perceived responsibility in self and others, the intervention focused on increasing both social skills and academic motivation. Participants…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Aggression, Intervention
Risk and Protective Factors in Mathematically Talented Black Male Students: Snapshots from Kindergarten through Eighth Grade
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McGee, Ebony O.; Pearman, F. Alvin, II – Urban Education, 2014
Within urban elementary schools are Black students who continue to challenge the normative deficit characterization of the educational opportunities of students like them. This study attempts to provide a more holistic picture of the scholarly trajectories of 13 African American males who are particularly talented in mathematics and who attended…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, At Risk Students, Resilience (Psychology), Mathematics Achievement