Books in the Black Studies and Critical Thinking series

Say It Loud: Black Students and Collegiate Culture pays homage to the earliest Black Studies programs in the United States, particularly to those programs that spawned from strong pedagogical, revolutionary social movements, and student-based organic and traditional academic practices.

Daughters of Seclusion

Charts the education and career trajectories of African American women scientists and sheds light as to why young African American females drop off the science map in high school. This book constructs a story about the map, which includes exits, entrances and turns.

Analyzes how - and how well - one company, Reconstruction, Inc of Philadelphia, has organized returning prisoners, their families, and communities for 24 years. This book looks at Reconstruction's programs, strategies, and patterns of change over time; and holistic and principled transformations in the people and families it has touched.

Deals concretely with the effective ways for educators to be social justice advocates, with questions about what it means to be a social justice advocate, and with the best communication strategies to advocate for a particular social justice view that might start and sustain an open dialogue.

Artful Stories

Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative, this book offers an examination of the performative sustainability of race, art depictions of African American culture in the rural south, educational and pedagogical contexts, dramatic and film representation, and intersections of race and gender performance.

How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? Based in communication, and drawing from diverse disciplines, this title seeks to address identity, race, and gender by examining the communicative dimensions of Black manhood.

Drawing upon an audience of scholars and practitioners to support its propositions, this book moves away from talking about the problems to conveying a well designed multi-disciplinary and detailed change strategy. It challenges traditional beliefs, praxes and strategies that typically start with a focus on youth as the central point.

The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. This book analyzes the transformational leadership, servant leadership, and social justice leadership found in the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde.

Argues that African American students should be taught to navigate and resist the racism perpetuated in every aspect of society and schools, and that to do so requires the development and expression of a culturally-rooted voice as a foundation for multicultural, multilingual, democratic communities.

Conducting Multi-Generational Qualitative Research in Education

Courageous Voices of Immigrants and Transnationals of Color

Black Megachurch Culture

How can (re)membering bear witness to our individual and collective spiritual consciousness and generate new questions that inform feminist theory and practice? This title explores this question.

Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality television - the docusoap. The authors discuss the types of images shown, potential readings of such portrayals, and the implication of these reality television docusoap presentations.

This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science.

Presents a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina.

Border Crossing "Brothas" examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal and figurative borders.

Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context.

Liberation in Higher Education introduces and expands on the notion of Endarkened Feminist Epistemology (EFE) based on a qualitative case study of Cynthia B. Dillard and her students as well as the white researcher and author, Sarah Militz-Frielink, as she became transformed through her research in higher education.

Brothers in Charge: Black Male Leadership in Higher Education and Public Health offers the views of a number of black males who have attained leadership positions against many odds in higher education or in public health with a unique perspective.

Brothers in Charge: Black Male Leadership in Higher Education and Public Health offers the views of a number of black males who have attained leadership positions against many odds in higher education or in public health with a unique perspective.

Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans.

Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans.

The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women's advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors' lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks.

The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women's advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors' lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks.

Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S. portrays how a critical teacher development framework for Teachers of Color can be applied to alternative routes to teaching and professional development program initiatives to actualize commitments to communities, social justice and visionaries.

Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S. portrays how a critical teacher development framework for Teachers of Color can be applied to alternative routes to teaching and professional development program initiatives to actualize commitments to communities, social justice and visionaries.

A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, faculty, and educators from the United States about Cuba.