The Sage handbook of African American education /

This handbook reflects historical and current perspectives on African Americans in secondary and post-secondary education. Its content promotes enquiry and development of questions, ideas and dialogues about critical practice, theory and research about African Americans in the US education system.

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Corporate Authors: Sage Publications, Sage eReference (Online service)
Other Authors: Tillman, Linda C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • The education of Black folk : historical perspectives. Introduction / Derrick P. Alridge and V.P. Franklin ; To gain and to lose : the Loving School and the African American struggle for education in Columbus, Ohio, 1831-1882 / Adah Ward Randolph ; African American educators and the Black intellectual tradition / Derrick P. Alridge ; They rose or fell together : African American educators and community leadership, 1795-1954 / V.P. Franklin ; The history of Black women graduate students, 1921-1948 / Linda M. Perkins ; Caught between a rock and a hard place : the dissolution of Black state teachers associations, 1954-1970 / Michael Fultz
  • The landscape of teaching and learning for African Americans in U.S. schooling. Introduction / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine ; Identity, agency, and culture : Black achievement and educational attainment / Peter C. Murrell Jr. ; Cultural community practices as urban classroom resources / Yolanda J. Majors and Sana Ansari ; Preparing teachers of African American students in urban schools / H. Richard Milner IV ; African American teachers' caring behaviors : the difference makes a difference / Mari Ann Roberts and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine ; After It takes a village : mapping the terrain of Black parental involvement in the post-Brown era / Cheryl Fields-Smith
  • African American leaders in PK-12 educational leadership. Introduction / Linda C. Tillman ; African American principals and the legacy of Brown / Linda C. Tillman ; Leadership challenges in K-12 urban education : prospective African American administrators' views on educating African American students and closing the achievement gap / Robert Cooper and Will J. Jordan ; The confluence of race, gender, and generation in the lives of African American women principals / Tondra L. Loder-Jackson ; Race, law, and leadership : exploring the interest-convergence dilemma / Mark A. Gooden ; African American superintendents in public school districts / Kay Lovelace Taylor and Linda C. Tillman
  • African American in higher education. Introduction / Kofi Lomotey ; Exclusions and illusions : rethinking the mysterious UC admissions process that disadvantages deserving African American students / Eddie Comeaux and Walter R. Allen ; Hip hop : a source of empowerment for African American male college students / Jon A. Yasin ; Campuswide climate : implications for African American students / William A. Smith ; Historically Black colleges and universities : catalysts to liberation? / Kofi Lomotey and Sessi S.F. Aboh ; The power of pathways : strategies for the preparation of African American faculty / Lynette L. Danley, Roderic R. Land, and Kofi Lomotey
  • Current issues : theory and research on the participation of African Americans in U.S. education. Introduction / Gwendolyn Cartledge ; Critical race studies in education and the endarkened wisdom of Carter G. Woodson / Marvin Lynn and Thurman L. Bridges III ; Educating and counseling African American students : recommendations for teachers and school counselors / James L. Moore III and Delila Owens ; The education of African American children in charter schools : four case studies / Carol E. Malloy and Richard Noble III ; Disproportionality of African American children in special education : definition and dimensions / Gwendolyn Cartledge and Charles Dukes ; Toward understanding African American males and K-12 education / James Earl Davis
  • African Americans shaping educational policy. Introduction / Jennifer Beaumont ; Creating opportunities for educational success : oral histories of four African Americans shaping education policy / Jennifer Beaumont ; Realities and responsibilities in the education village / Eric J. Cooper ; Creating a new model of education for African American children : mobilizing stakeholder partners in service to sustained academic success / Sabrina Hope King and Nancy M. Cardwell ; Beyond segregation : the continuing struggle for educational equity 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education / Sheilah D. Vance ; Educating Black youth for economic empowerment : democratic economic participation and school reform practices and policies / Jessica Gordon Nembhard
  • Epilogue: Black education post-Katrina : and all us we are not saved / Joyce Elaine King
  • Appendix: Graduate school programs to prepare future faculty of color / Lynette L. Danley, Roderic R. Land, and Kofi Lomotey.