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Bausell, Sarah Byrne; Staton, Torri A.; Hughes, Sherick – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article documents collective memories of the founding, curriculum, and attendees of one of the first (1866) Reconstruction Era Quaker-Freedmen School sites in the Southeastern United States. It applies critical oral history methodology including the collection of primary documents, previous investigations into the school, and interviews of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Race, African American Education, United States History
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Givens, Jarvis R. – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
This article analyzes Carter G. Woodson's iconic Negro History Week and its impact on Black schools during Jim Crow. Negro History Week introduced knowledge on Afro-diasporic history and culture to schools around the country. As a result of teachers' grassroots organizing, it became a cultural norm in Black schools by the end of the 1930s. This…
Descriptors: African American History, African American Students, Racial Bias, Racial Segregation
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Baldridge, Bianca J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
After-school community-based spaces are often recognized in political and educational discourse as institutions that "save" and "rescue" Black youth. Such rhetoric perpetuates an ethos of pathology that diminishes the agency of youth and their communities. Through ethnographic research with 20 youth workers at a college…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Black Studies, African American Students, After School Programs
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Garces, Liliana M. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
This study examines the effects of affirmative action bans in four states (California, Florida, Texas, and Washington) on the enrollment of underrepresented students of color within six different graduate fields of study: the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, education, and humanities. Findings show that affirmative action…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities
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Xu, Jianzhong; Coats, Linda T.; Davidson, Mary L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
The authors of this article argue both the urgency and the promise of establishing a constructive conversation among different bodies of research, including science interest, sociocultural studies in science education, and culturally relevant teaching. With the instructional practices of eight exemplary African American elementary teachers serving…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Science Activities, Student Interests, Science Interests
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Morris, Jerome E. – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
The scholarly community has been neglectful in its study of those urban and predominantly African American schools that manifest agency in spite of persistent racial inequalities and poverty. Consequently, we are left to wonder whether anything good can come from urban African American schools, or from the communities where they are located. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, African American Education, Low Income Groups