African Americans in Higher Education

A Critical Study of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Africana Culture

James L. Conyers, Crystal L. Edwards, Kevin B. Thompson, Theodorea Regina Berry, James L. Conyers, Crystal L. Edwards, Kevin B. Thompson

• Publisher: Myers Education Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781975502058
  9781975502041
• eBook ISBN:
  9781975502072
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

While there is a wealth of scholarship on Africana Education, no single volume has examined the roles of such important topics as Black Male Identity, Hip Hop Culture, Adult Learners, Leadership at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Critical Black Pedagogy, among others.

This book critically examines African Americans in higher education, with an emphasis on the social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture. This is a critical interdisciplinary study, one which explores the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in the field of higher education.

To date, there are not any single-authored or edited collections that attempt to research the logical and conceptual ideas of the disciplinary matrix of Africana social and philosophical foundations of African Americans in higher education. Therefore, this volume provides readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and communicative essays that describe and evaluate the Black experience from an Afrocentric perspective for the first time. It is required reading in a wide range of African American Studies courses.

Perfect for courses such as: African American Social and Philosophical Foundations | African American Studies | African Nationalist Thought | History of Black Education

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• One: Revisiting The Brownies’ Book : (Re)Imagining Black Males’ Youth
• Two: “Me Versus Them”: An African American Male Professor’s Approach to Teaching Race at a Predominately White Institution
• Three: Challenges Faced by African American Adult Students: Within Higher Education
• Four: Educating for Social Justice: The Potential Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century
• Five: Where Am I: An Analysis of the Incongruence Between Black Men and the Teaching Profession
• Six: Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History: A Reflexive Analysis of the History of Black Education
• Seven: “You Have to Get Your Mind Right for This”: Black Women’s Graduate School Experiences
• Eight: No Parent Left Behind: The Narratives of African American Fathers in Texas on Their Parental Involvement
• Nine: Toward an Afrocentric Antiracist Pedagogy for Brazilian Music Ensembles
• Ten: The Need for Beloved Community: Black Graduate Students and the Collaborative Creation of Counterspaces
• Eleven: Counseling Psychology of African Americans: A Review of the Literature
• Twelve: Anti-Black Ontological Violence in Undergraduate Textbooks
• Thirteen: Vertically Integrated: African American Studies Instruction as Co-Requisite to Education-Based Ontological Manipulation
• Fourteen: Teaching Through Culture: Employing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to Transform Postsecondary STEM Instruction
• Fifteen: Visionary and Social Justice Leaders: Leading by Example in Educational Environments
• Sixteen: The Dimensions of a Departmentalized Literacy Classroom Infused with Culturally Relevant/Responsive Practices: Its Impact on African American Second-Grade Reading Achievement
• Contributors
• Index