scholarly journals "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child": The Role of Social Capital in Promoting Academic Success for African American Men at a Black College

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Palmer ◽  
Marybeth Gasman
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
African American ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Black College

Institutional Factors that Influence The Academic Success Of African-American Men

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-266
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Simms ◽  
Donice M. Knight ◽  
Katherine I. Dawes
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Institutional Factors

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald K. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
College Presidents ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
First Century ◽  
Black College ◽  
College President ◽  
American Black

The epilogue reveals the importance of placing African American black college presidents in an historical context. I re-emphasize the role of a black college president as more than an administrator of an institution but a race leader to his community. I also explain the creation of “moderation” in North Carolina and how Shepard help create this approach to the race issue prior to the legal battles surrounding school integration during the 1950s. Finally, I examine how Shepard’s legacy at North Carolina Central University has lasted well into the twenty-first century. This lasting impact is seen in the theory of the “Central Way” of doing things at the school today. This approach is largely based on the foundation of “moral education” that Shepard created in the early to mid-twentieth century.

scholarly journals Decoding the Role of Companions in Supporting the Health Communication of Older African-American Men With Cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Mitchell ◽  
Jaclynn Hawkins ◽  
Ed-Dee G. Williams ◽  
Susan Eggly ◽  
Terrance L. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Comprehensive Cancer Center ◽  
Provider Communication ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Medical Visits ◽  
Patient Provider Communication ◽  
Male Patients

The objective of this study was to systematically characterize the content and patterning of companion’s communicative behavior during oncology consultations for older African-American male patients. Companions and family members often play an important role in patient-centered communication for patients with cancer. Despite their disproportionate cancer burden, little is known about how companions facilitate patient-provider communication for older African-American men with cancer. This study represents a secondary qualitative analysis of 14 video-recorded doctor patient-companion medical visits for African-American male patients with cancer. Videos were captured with consent and institutional review board approval at a Midwest comprehensive cancer center between 2002 and 2006. These medical visits were transcribed, deidentified, and analyzed for the content, frequency, co-occurrence, and thematic clustering of companions’ active participation behaviors during the interaction. Results were well aligned with existing studies on accompanied oncology visits. Patients were on average, 60.14 years old and all but one of the 16 companions was a woman. A total 782 companion behaviors were coded across 14 medical interactions. While companions communicated directly with providers (eg, asking questions, providing medical history) and directly with patients (eg, clarifying information, giving advice), there was a lack of triadic communication. This study clarifies the role of mainly spousal companions as important intermediaries in the patient-provider communication dynamic for older African-American men with cancer.

Addressing the Silence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen K. Black ◽  
John T. Groce ◽  
Charles E. Harmon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Male Caregiver ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This chapter, as the conclusion to our book, is entitled Addressing the Silence. We went “behind the scenes” of our work to examine the research process and pondered various aspects of interviewing a coterie of African-American men. For example, why were our caregiving men so willing to discuss their experiences of caregiving? Were there topics within caregiving that men were reluctant to discuss? And, why did the methods of our research fit well with the subject of caregiving and with the communal history of our respondents? Although our research addressed the gap in the caregiving and gerontological literature about elderly African-American men, our respondents showed us how much more we need to learn from them. As men discussed their care work in the forum of the research interview, the role of the elder African-American male caregiver came out of the shadows, but not yet completely into the light.

The Sit-In Movement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Black College ◽  
School Students ◽  
A Chain

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit-in movement began on February 1, 1960 when four young African American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Refused service, the four college students sat quietly until the store closed. They continued their protest on the following days, each day joined by more fellow students. Students in other southern cities learned what was happening and started their own demonstrations, and in just weeks, lunch counter sit-ins were taking place across the South. By the end of the spring, tens of thousands of black college and high school students, joined in some cases by sympathetic white students, had joined the sit-in movement. Several thousand went to jail for their efforts after being arrested on charges of trespass, disorderly conduct, or whatever other laws southern police officers believed they could use against the protesters. The sit-ins arrived at a critical juncture in the modern black freedom struggle. The preceding years had brought major breakthroughs, such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling in 1954 and the successful Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–1956, but by 1960, activists were struggling to develop next steps. The sit-in movement energized and transformed the struggle for racial equality, moving the leading edge of the movement from the courtrooms and legislative halls to the streets and putting a new, younger generation of activists on the front lines. It gave birth to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the most important activist groups of the 1960s. It directed the nation’s attention to the problem of racial discrimination in private businesses that served the public, pressured business owners in scores of southern cities to open their lunch counters to African American customers, and set in motion a chain of events that would culminate in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations across the nation.

Abstract B087: Role of GATA-4-Androgen-AR axis in prostate cancer from African American men

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swathi Ramakrishnan ◽  
Xuan Peng ◽  
Eduardo Cortes Gomez ◽  
Kristopher Attwood ◽  
Li Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Men

scholarly journals Perceptions and Receptivity of Nonspousal Family Support: A Mixed Methods Study of Psychological Distress Among Older, Church-Going African American Men

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne C. Watkins ◽  
Tracy Wharton ◽  
Jamie A. Mitchell ◽  
Niki Matusko ◽  
Helen C. Kales
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Fit Index

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of nonspousal family support on mental health among older, church-going African American men. The mixed methods objective was to employ a design that used existing qualitative and quantitative data to explore the interpretive context within which social and cultural experiences occur. Qualitative data ( n = 21) were used to build a conceptual model that was tested using quantitative data ( n = 401). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated an inverse association between nonspousal family support and distress. The comparative fit index, Tucker–Lewis fit index, and root mean square error of approximation indicated good model fit. This study offers unique methodological approaches to using existing, complementary data sources to understand the health of African American men.

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