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Subreenduth, Sharon; Rhee, Jeong-eun – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
As im/migrant researchers of color working and living in the USA, we begin this article by discussing how our own transnational selves and research have created tensions with the normalized use of socially constructed and theorized categories and differences in US qualitative research practices. We theorize an alternative reflexive mode of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Researchers, Immigrants, Migrants
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article examines the association between school ethnic composition and immigrant students' intentions to finish high school and to move on to higher education. We used data from 1324 immigrant and 10,546 native students gathered in the school year 2004-2005 in a sample of 85 Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools. Logistic multilevel analyses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Academic Aspiration
Jennings, Lillian Pegues – 1986
Education serves as a backdrop and a disguise, masking the transformation of this country from an industrialized blue-collar dependent system to a technocratic system dependent upon fewer, but highly educated workers. This movement has tremendous implications for race relations in this country. An in-depth study of the history of school reform…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Black Education, Blacks, Educational Discrimination
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Wolcott, Victoria W. – OAH Magazine of History, 1993
Relates the story and subsequent trial of Ossian Sweet and his efforts to defend his home and family against racially motivated violence in Detroit (Michigan) during the 1920s. Contends that the Sweet case was an early victory against housing segregation and foreshadowed the Civil Rights movement. (CFR)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Family, Black History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1999
Collection of articles, examines issues related to African Americans in higher education. Topics include black faculty; educational finance; law schools; black colleges; private universities; enrollment trends; high achieving African immigrants; bridging the racial computer gap; black women compared to black men and to white women in doctoral…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, Blacks