Black male success in STEM: A case study of Morehouse College.

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Gasman ◽  
Thai-Huy Nguyen ◽  
Clifton F. Conrad ◽  
Todd Lundberg ◽  
Felecia Commodore
Keyword(s):  
Black Male ◽  
Morehouse College

“We Don’t Got Time for Grumbling”: Toward an Ethic of Radical Care in Urban School Leadership

2020 ◽  
pp. 0013161X2092589
Author(s):  
Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Urban School ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Urban School Leadership ◽  
Effective School Leadership ◽  
Document Review

Purpose: This article presents a case study of a successful Black male public urban school principal, offering a counterstory to discourses of failure in urban schools. I build on scholars’ work in critical caring, the Black principalship, and radical hope to call for an expansion of narrow frameworks of effective school leadership to include an ethic of radical care within urban school leadership. Method: This study represents a counterstory in the tradition of critical race theory, centering the voice and perspectives of a Black male urban school principal. Using ethnographic research methods, this case study was based on prolonged and embedded engagement in the field including observations, informal and formal interviews, and document review. Data were collected and analyzed over a 2-year period. Findings: Five components of effective school leadership emerged from analysis of the data that, taken together, can be described as a radical care framework. These components include the folowing: (a) adopting an antiracist, social just stance; (b) cultivating authentic relationships; (c) believing in students’ and teachers’ capacity for growth and excellence; (d) strategically navigating the sociopolitical and policy climate; and (e) embracing a spirit of radical hope. Conclusion: In addition to highlighting the power of counterstories in educational leadership research, this study reinforces the critical need for leadership preparation that is grounded in antiracism and social justice, and comprises all aspects of an ethic of radical care. Furthermore, the study points to the need for targeted recruitment of Black and Latinx school leaders, particularly in urban contexts.

scholarly journals Successful Black Males at a Hispanic Serving Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Jonelle Knox
Keyword(s):  
Minority Students ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Male Student ◽  
Cohort Programs ◽  
Black Male Student ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Hispanic Serving ◽  
Initiative Program

The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to understand experiences of Black males who successfully graduated from a northeast Hispanic serving community college (HSCC). The local model of successful minority students (LMSMS) was used as the conceptual framework for this study. There were two groups of participants, Black males who participated in a minority male initiative program and Black males who did not. The findings revealed that: 1) Black males at the HSCC faced both internal and external barriers that impeded their persistence to graduation, 2) Black male student engagement with similar peers and in cohort programs improved persistence and graduation, 3) Black males who created an internal “family” that encompassed faculty, peers, and staff at the institution were able to persist to graduation, 4) the lack of organization at the institution was a discouragement that Black males had to overcome to successfully persist to graduation.

Pole Dancing for Jesus

Flaming? ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Alisha Lola Jones
Keyword(s):  
Black Male ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Black Male Identity

Chapter 3 dissects the sociocultural sensitivity about the extent to which men’s dance or gesture in worship registers as queer by analyzing a case study of a man who worships God through pole fitness. Derived from ethnographic research of widely circulated Jungle Cat’s amateur “pole dancing for Jesus” performance footage, chapter 3 teases out innumerable creative processes through which men’s situating of identity takes place. Jungle Cat worships God to recorded gospel music with ritual components of private dancing and contemplation that absolve him from ecclesial, denominational, and organizational restrictions and surveillance. While anxieties about black male identity also apply to more conventional forms of men’s praise dance such as mime and step, pole dancing cultivates especially passionate responses from gospel music observers.

“I See Death Around the Corner”: Black Manhood and Vulnerability in Me Against the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 632-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keven James Rudrow
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Black Manhood ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Network

This essay uses Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World as a case study examining how Black male artists use hip-hop music for articulating the racialized vulnerability organizing their manhood. By thinking about how Shakur understands his Black maleness through his social relationality to the world around him, Shakur’s album creates resistive space for defining Black maleness despite how Black masculinity is often defined and imposed on Black men. Shakur’s album maps a relational network for understanding a brand of Black manhood obscured by dominant discourses about Black men and their masculinity. Specifically, Shakur’s album frames Black maleness through poverty and how it orients Black men, his perpetual susceptibility to harm and death, and suicide ideation as a response to his despair. Connecting Black maleness and vulnerability, Shakur’s album offers insight about being Black and male in a patriarchal White supremacist society.

Projecting Success

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Ursula Thomas ◽  
Frederick D. Parham
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Black Student ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Black Male Students ◽  
Radar Screen ◽  
National Conversation ◽  
Educational Pipeline

Changing the trajectory of Black male students may not yet be a national conversation, but it's on the national radar screen. The success of Black males has increasingly become a topic of research, dialogue, debate, and strategic planning. As we engage in the conversation, however, talking with Black male students is a reminder that we're educating kids, not statistics, and that, as one Black student affirms, “The truth doesn't live in numbers. It lives in the person.” The challenges facing Black males throughout the educational pipeline have been discussed by researchers in detail. However, missing from this research are discussions from the perspective of researchers, educators, and community members united on how to better support Black males. This case study examines the field placement partnership between Perimeter College and Project Success: 100 Black Men of Atlanta. The case study documents the goals, plans, and outcomes of the three-year partnership.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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