Troubles of Black Boys in Urban Schools in the United States: Black Feminist and Gay Men’s Perspectives

2009 ◽  
pp. 146-170
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Boys ◽  
Black Feminist

Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Jane Vialle

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-118
Author(s):  
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Grey Area ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
French Equatorial Africa ◽  
National Borders

Chapter three functions as a bridge between the first two chapters on locating possibilities for liberation in the grey area of Antillean departmentalization, and the next two chapters on African women’s demands for independence. It examines the ways in which Eugénie Éboué-Tell’s and Jane Vialle’s work in the French senate connected the anticolonial activism of women in the Antilles and French Equatorial Africa, and extended this activism beyond the borders of imperial France to include the United States. Both women forged transnational black feminist networks and thus claimed multiple communities and political affiliations that often defied imperial and national borders.

“Good Intentions Can Only Get You So Far”: Critical Reflections From Teach For America Corps Members Placed in Special Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. M. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teach For America ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Critical Reflections ◽  
Education Initiatives

Research on Teach For America (TFA) continues to grow, but scant scholarship has explored the experiences of its corps members working in special education in urban schools. As teachers who require in-depth knowledge of legal and liability processes as well as effective pedagogical practices, corps members in special education positions have significant demands placed on them that often lie beyond the roles and responsibilities of other TFA teachers. This article therefore focuses on the experiences of five TFA corps members placed in special education as it explores their critical reflections about the minimal preparation and support they received from TFA. In light of recent special education initiatives launched by TFA, the article raises questions about the continued involvement of TFA in the field of special education and its ability to adequately prepare corps members for the unique responsibilities served by special education teachers in the United States.

Introduction: Urban Schools in France

2017 ◽  
Vol 673 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-234
Author(s):  
Henri Peretz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Essay

This short essay introduces four articles on urban schools in France and provides a framework for a comparative analysis of urban schools in France and the United States.

scholarly journals The Factors Which Lead Students’ Dropout from Public Secondary Schools in Al’Ain City, Exploring It

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Khamis Fatima Abdulla Alkaabi ◽  
Mohd Asri Bin Mohd Noor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Local Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Al Ain ◽  
The Family

For any instructive organization, understudies are generally significant. Colleges and schools have no an incentive without students. The instructive cycle is an incorporated interaction including the family, the school and the whole local area to arrive at viable yields. There are a number of factors that negatively affect at-risk students' retention in school and graduate such as socioeconomic status. Phenomenon of dropout where thousands of students dropped out is prevalent and constant in urban schools across the United States (Brown, 2015). This research is important for academic reason; it gives academic practitioners vital information that can be utilized to develop the education. The information was collected by interviews questions with students. The information collected were analyzed by using coding, theme and sub-nodes with Nvivo program. The research showed that the factors affect in Retention of secondary stage’s students in Al Ain.

scholarly journals Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Sula and A Mercy: Rethinking (M)Othering

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Natália Fontes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Mother ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Biological Determinants

Motherhood tends to elicit strong feelings in women as well as a passionate rhetoric in our cultural discourse. Daughters have extensively been the focus of studies about mother-daughter bonds. Surprisingly, much less attention has been given to mother figures. By tracing the theme of motherhood in Sula (1973) and A Mercy (2009), I investigate how Toni Morrison rewrites the experiences of black mothers during slavery and its aftermath in the United States. Drawing mainly on feminist and black feminist theories, I explore, through literary analysis, how motherhood assumes various forms in both novels. The comparative analysis of Sula and A Mercy challenges distorted views commonly associated with the black mother and extends notions of mothering beyond biological determinants.

Gentrification, Geography, and the Declining Enrollment of Neighborhood Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis A. Pearman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Neighborhood Schools ◽  
Urban Schooling ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Declining Enrollment ◽  
New Statistics ◽  
Year 2000

This study examines patterns and relations between gentrification and urban schooling across U.S. cities using longitudinal data from 2000 to 2014. The first section presents new statistics on the incidence and distribution of gentrification occurring around urban schools in the United States as a whole. Of the roughly 20% of urban schools located in divested neighborhoods in the year 2000, roughly one in five experienced gentrification in their surrounding neighborhood by 2014. However, there exists considerable heterogeneity in the prevalence of gentrification across U.S. cities, with exposure rates ranging from zero in some cities to over 50% in others. The second section finds evidence that gentrification is associated with declining enrollment at neighborhood schools, especially when gentrifiers are White.

Trans Studies and Resistance in an Academy Based on Masculinity Contest Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Travers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Labor Pool ◽  
Trans Women

Abstract Trans studies is a burgeoning and global interdisciplinary field of scholarship. Although trans people in general continue to remain on the margins of the academy in Canada and the United States, some of the trans scholars who contribute to the field of trans studies are in continuing faculty (tenure-track and tenured) positions. Trans women in general and trans women and trans feminine people of color, in particular, however, are particularly underrepresented in this labor pool. The author brings together a theoretical pastiche consisting of a Black feminist analysis of patriarchy as a layered phenomenon, trans necropolitics, and a masculinity contest culture paradigm to trouble this limit to representation within trans studies in Canada and the United States.

scholarly journals On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Kristin Moriah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Performance Reviews ◽  
Madison Square Garden ◽  
German Newspapers

In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. According to clippings that she provided to African American newspapers, the singer performed at the renowned Winter Garden in Berlin for three months. Sissieretta Jones also claimed that she performed for Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, at his palace and was subsequently presented with an elaborate diamond brooch for her performance. Afterward, the singer told the African American newspaper the Indianapolis Freeman that she would like to live in Europe permanently. Her biographers frequently cite the success of this trip and its symbolic importance for African Americans. And yet, evidence of these events in the archives of major German newspapers is elusive and contradictory at best, if it exists at all. Nevertheless, after the much-hyped tour, her career would take many twists and turns. Sissieretta Jones eventually performed in venues like Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden. She was the highest-paid Black female performer of the nineteenth century and a role model for future generations of Black performers.

Breaking Silence

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
M. Jacqui Alexander ◽  
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Black Colleges And Universities

The coauthors of this chapter write about having obtained a grant from the Arcus Foundation to conceptualize a radical project to advance the equality of black GLBT students. They titled the project: “Facilitating Campus Climates of Pluralism, Inclusivity, and Progressive Change at HBCUs.” Writing about their vision of it in this chapter, the coauthors share the historically groundbreaking plan for the work they began together in 2006 to challenge “historical black colleges and universities” (HBCUs) in the United States to eradicate heteronormative and homophobic ideas of black identity. As an “introduction” to the aim and goals they sought to accomplish, these two esteemed black feminist scholars in women’s studies connect their project to Walker’s womanist concept of love for all LGBT black “Folk.”

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