The Financial Cost of Maintaining Relationships with Incarcerated African American Men: Results from a Survey of Women Prison Visitors

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Grinsteady Olga ◽  
Faigeles Bonnie ◽  
Bancroft Carrie ◽  
Zack Barry
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Financial Cost

Dream Denied

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Soyer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Dream ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Offending Trajectories ◽  
Minority Men

A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America shows how the narrative of American dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American dream helps the teenagers cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.

Institutional Factors that Influence The Academic Success Of African-American Men

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-266
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Simms ◽  
Donice M. Knight ◽  
Katherine I. Dawes
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Institutional Factors
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