Race and Racism in the Experiences of Black Male Resident Assistants at Predominantly White Universities

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun R. Harper ◽  
Ryan J. Davis ◽  
David E. Jones ◽  
Brian L. McGowan ◽  
Ted N. Ingram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Resident Assistants ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Male Resident ◽  
Predominantly White Universities

Learning While Black: A Culturally Informed Model of the Impostor Phenomenon for Black Graduate Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Stone ◽  
Chastity Saucer ◽  
Marlon Bailey ◽  
Ramya Garba ◽  
Ashley Hurst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Impostor Phenomenon ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Black Graduate Students ◽  
Impostor Feelings ◽  
Psychosocial Costs ◽  
Internal Sense ◽  
Relevant Factors

This study presents a culturally informed model of the impostor phenomenon construct for Black graduate students who attend predominantly White universities. The impostor phenomenon is an internal sense of intellectual fraudulence and a tendency to attribute success to external factors, such as luck. However, the original construct was conceptualized with a sample of White individuals and may not capture the culturally relevant factors for Black graduate students such as race or racial discrimination. Furthermore, only one empirical study investigates impostor feelings in Black graduate students. The current study addresses these gaps by using focus groups to qualitatively investigate the impostor phenomenon in 12 Black graduate students. Inductive thematic analysis revealed five themes ( Awareness of Low Racial Representation, Questioning Intelligence, Expectations, Psychosocial Costs, and Explaining Success Externally) and multiple subthemes. The findings extend the original construct, contribute to a culturally informed framework for understanding the impostor phenomenon in Black graduate students, and have implications for theory, educators, clinicians, and researchers.

What Matter Matters? Retaining the Critical in New Materialist Literacy Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Beucher ◽  
Lara Handsfield ◽  
Carolyn Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Black Male ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Male High School ◽  
Literacy Research ◽  
Class Assignment

The field of literacy research has seen a recent surge in scholarship focusing on how matter—both human and nonhuman—comes to matter in literacy research and practice. This article explores how new materialist theories may be recruited for literacy research motivated by an anti-racist ethic. We present an illustrative intra-action analysis of a short autobiographical video produced by Malcolm, a Black male high school student, for a digital autobiography class assignment. Our analysis, informed by both new materialist and poststructuralist theories and emphasizing both discourse and materiality, produces varied interpretations of Malcolm and his literacy practices. Based on our multitheoretic analysis, we raise ethical concerns regarding analyses of racialized students’ literacy practices that emphasize materiality and affect without also retaining a critical eye toward powerful discourses of race and racism. We end with implications and recommendations for others engaging new materialisms in literacy research.

scholarly journals This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Chaitra Powell ◽  
Holly Smith ◽  
Shanee' Murrain ◽  
Skyla Hearn
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Predominantly White Universities ◽  
Archival Profession ◽  
Woman's Work

Archivists who work on African American collections are increasingly more aware that traditional sites of African American agency and autonomy are becoming more unstable. The need to capture the perspectives and histories of these institutions is urgent. The challenges become more acute when communities recognize the need to preserve their legacies but do not have the resources or support to make it happen. African American material culture and history remains at risk of co-optation from large institutions and individuals seeking to monetize and profit from collecting Black collections. Endemic in that process is the risk of these institutions controlling the narrative and inadvertently or deliberately erasing the narratives of these diverse communities from that community’s perspective. Cultural memory workers focused on African American collections face numerous challenges: the risk of losing the materials or communities themselves; partnering with organizations and administrations with differing, and perhaps conflicting agendas; working on projects with limited or term funding; and the emotional labor of being a person of color in a predominantly white field trying to support communities that can often reflect their own experiences. How can libraries, museums, and archives bring these communities into the world of archives and empower them to protect and share their stories? How can archivists, particularly those of color, find support within their institutions and the archival profession, to accomplish this work of preserving African American cultural heritage? How can archives support genuinely collaborative projects with diverse Black communities without co-opting their stories and collections?The authors will address these questions in this article, discussing their experiences working with a variety of institutions—predominantly white universities, Black colleges, churches, neighborhoods and families. The authors also include their reflections from their National Conference of African American Librarians panel presentation in August 2017 on these related topics.

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