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Turner, Jennifer D. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
Black children today fight to define their own futurity beyond the myth of low aspirations -- a dominant societal ideology which limits Black success to careers in professional sports and entertainment and blames Black families and communities for devaluing education. Informed by career aspiration research and qualitative methodologies, this study…
Descriptors: African American Children, Occupational Aspiration, Afrocentrism, Values
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Howard, Philip S. S. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
In the midst of the complicated racial-linguistic landscape that is Montreal, Quebec, the educational experiences of the relatively small population of Anglophone Blacks are often invisibilized within the education literature, and relatively little attention is paid to the nature of Black students' and educators' struggles with racism and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Levine-Rasky, Cynthia – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
In September 2009, the Toronto District School Board opened a publicly funded Africentric alternative school that today serves a population of about 135 students. While the founding of the eponymous school was the result of successful advocacy on the part of African-Canadian communities in the city, it was met with controversy. Readily observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afrocentrism, Culturally Relevant Education, Public Opinion