Bücher der Reihe Black Studies and Critical Thinking

Spiritual Discourse in the Academy reaches out to educators, scholars, and students who are interested in the multiple roles of spirituality in schooling and society at large. It can be used for teaching courses in spirituality, education, religious studies, and cultural studies.

Minding Their Own Business: Five Female Leaders from Trinidad and Tobago is a narrative project that illuminates the historical legacy of entrepreneurship, self-employment, and collective economics within the African diaspora, particularly in the lives of five women leaders of African descent from Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean.

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

Presents a large-scale evaluation of a theory-driven school reform project in New Zealand, which focuses on improving educational achievement of Maori students in public secondary schools. In this book, the project's conceptual underpinnings are based on Kaupapa Maori research, and relationship-based pedagogy.

(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts

Black Megachurch Culture

Courageous Voices of Immigrants and Transnationals of Color

Conducting Multi-Generational Qualitative Research in Education

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.

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.

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.

Artful Stories

Presents a large-scale evaluation of a theory-driven school reform project in New Zealand, which focuses on improving educational achievement of Maori students in public secondary schools. In this book, the project's conceptual underpinnings are based on Kaupapa Maori research, and relationship-based pedagogy.

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.

Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness

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.

Daughters of Seclusion

This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching.

This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching.

This book seeks to answer the question: What is truly going on for Black males in Vermont public schools? Only those who were students in public schools across the state can really answer that question, and their perspectives help shed light on the condition of Black males in predominantly white rural spheres experiencing similar shifts in racial demographics across the nation.

For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in 1930s and 1940s Detroit. As the first biography of Sherrill, this book examines him as part of a historical tradition from which post-World War II Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism re-emerged.

Explores the ways that children of Black immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean come to understand their racial and ethnic identities, given the socialization messages they receive from their parents and their experiences with institutionalized racism and racial hierarchies in a US middle school.

The movement and dispersion of African ascendant peoples around the globe has been historically rooted in struggle and oppression. The issues that arise include naming, African identities, cultural memory, and what methodologies best serve the work we do on behalf of African people. (Im)migrations, Relations, and Identities thoughtfully researches and discusses these issues.

This volume illustrates the journeys that Black pre-service teachers travel in their attempts to become educators. By looking at their educational life histories - their schooling experiences, teaching philosophies, and personal motivation - this book discovers what compels them to become teachers and the struggles and successes they encounter along the way.

Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem - earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster to run an operation of that size.

The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment.

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.

What does it mean to lead while Black in America?

The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reinvision Black Studies through a critical lens.