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

Successful Undergraduate African American Men's Navigation and Negotiation of Academic and Social Counter-Spaces as Adaptation to Racism at Historically White Institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-350
Author(s):  
Ray Black ◽  
Albert Y. Bimper
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Affinity Groups ◽  
Historically White Institutions

Extant research has extensively illuminated African American men's experiences with racism at historically White institutions. Their efforts to persist and graduate meant many of them learned to navigate and respond to racism on and off campus. Such learned behavior has necessitated adopting coping mechanisms to acculturate to the social, cultural, and academic environments within and surrounding institutions of higher education. Drawn from a larger study, this qualitative case study explored the experiences and the strategies used by two participants as they self-navigated the institution's support programs, affinity groups, and campus organizations to achieve personal and academic success. Academically persistent and successful African American men formed unique personal networks; sought out support; and received help from African American organizations, family members, faculty members, and staff members. This research advances a growing body of literature focusing on the success strategies of undergraduate African American men pursuing their educational goals at historically White institutions.

Dream Denied

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Soyer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Dream ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Offending Trajectories ◽  
Minority Men

A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America shows how the narrative of American dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American dream helps the teenagers cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.

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