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African-Born Women Faculty in the United States
The Edwin Mellen Press 2008; US$ 149.95This study, underpinned by Black feminist thought, African feminism, and critical race theory, investigates the lived experiences of African-born female professors in the United States. The findings reveal similar themes found in the literature on other Black and foreign women, but also offer new perspectives on racialization, double discrimination,... more...
Making School Count
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95Making School Count reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students were used and evaluated. The book offers insights into the discrepancy between students' academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities... more...
Black Colleges
Greenwood Publishing Group 2004; US$ 103.00In this collection of studies of historically black colleges and universities, Brown (director, Frederick Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund) and Freeman (education, Dillard U.) seek to rectify the omission of those institutions from higher education research. The studies analyze the relevance of black colleges for black more...
Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 52.95John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years. The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in Shaker Heights, Ohio--focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social... more...
Values Education in Schools
Australian Council for Educational Research 2008; US$ 39.95Values Education in Schools: A resource book for student inquiry is an important new resource for teachers involved in values and ethics education. It provides a range of ?practical philosophy? resources for secondary school teachers that can be used in English, religious education, citizenship, personal development and social science subjects.... more...
More Than One Struggle
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 28.95Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education . Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining greater control over schools.... more...
The Trouble With Black Boys
Wiley 2009; US$ 17.95For many years to come, race will continue to be a source of controversy and conflict in American society. For many of us it will continue to shape where we live, pray, go to school, and socialize. We cannot simply wish away the existence of race or racism, but we can take steps to lessen the ways in which the categories trap and confine us. Educators,... more...
Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life
ASCD 2009; US$ 16.95This thought-provoking book from award-winning educator Baruti K. Kafele offers proven strategies that teachers and administrators can use to motivate and engage black male students at the middle and high school levels. more...
The Education of African-Americans
ABC-CLIO 1991; US$ 49.00As part of a project on the status of African-Americans that was initiated by the William Monroe Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, this volume takes a comprehensive look at the education of African-Americans, specifically early childhood through postsecondary education, and relevant public policy... more...
Schooling Citizens
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through... more...









