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Direct linkAlbritton, Travis J. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
Providing a brief history of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)--including how and why they were founded, funding sources and needs over time, and an examination of mission statements--the author considers the relevance of HBCUs in the current twenty-first century context. He makes an argument that the educational opportunities…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational History, Financial Support, Needs
Bettez, Silvia Cristina; Suggs, Vickie L. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
In this article we provide a brief history of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as a part of the sociopolitical context framing this special issue. The aim of this issue is to situate HBCUs as centers of leadership, change, and influence as well as repositories of Black education and the Black American experience through their…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Education, Educational History, Social Environment
Douglas, Ty-Ron M. O. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
In this paper, the author challenges stakeholders (i.e., administrators, educators, students) of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to examine how HBCUs can continue to serve as sites of resistance against the prevailing cultural norms of materialism, Western masculinity, and spiritual malefaction. The author traces his…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Education, Resistance (Psychology), Culture
Ogbu, John U. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2004
After more than 15 years of comparative study of minority education, I concluded that I would have to study two additional factors, namely collective identity and cultural frame of reference to more fully explain the variability in minority school performance. In 1986, I published an article with Signithia Fordham on how "oppositional…
Descriptors: African American History, African American Students, Racial Identification, African American Community
Berry, Theodorea Regina – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2005
Public schools have increasing numbers of its teachers fitting into one demographic, white and female, while the numbers of African American teachers decrease (Ladson-Billings, "Crossing over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms". San Francisco: Josey-Bass" [2001]). Furthermore, African American collegiates…
Descriptors: African American Education, Teacher Educators, Educational Experience, African American Teachers
