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Tichavakunda, Antar A. – Urban Education, 2024
This essay outlines how Black placemaking, a sociological framework used to study Black residents in urban contexts, might be used to study Black students' experiences at historically White institutions (HWIs) of higher education. Black placemaking engages with the intersection of Blackness, place, structure, and agency. The author argues that…
Descriptors: African American Students, Predominantly White Institutions, College Environment, Student School Relationship
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Reddick, Richard J. – Urban Education, 2020
William Banks' 1984 article "Afro-American Scholars in the University" situated Black faculty at predominantly White institutions in a milieu noting the uses and misuses of Black scholars, constituencies in conflict, the range of responses from Black scholars, and the standards and realities for their advancement in academia. Banks…
Descriptors: College Faculty, African American Teachers, Urban Education, Affirmative Action
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Patterson, Jean A.; Mickelson, Kathryn A.; Hester, Michael L.; Wyrick, John – Urban Education, 2011
The authors use womanist caring (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2002) as a framework for analyzing data from an oral history project of Douglass School, an all-Black school that existed in the small town of Parsons, Kansas, from 1908-1958. In-depth interviews were conducted with 55 former students who attended the school during the 1920s through when it…
Descriptors: Caring, African American Students, Oral History, Educational Objectives