Guides: Black Minds Matter @ Pitt: 20 Must-Read Works for Educators of Black Boys and Men

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Bonner, F. A., Jennings, M. E., Marbley, A. F., & Brown, L. A. (2008). Capitalizing on leadership capacity: Gifted African American males in high school. Roeper Review, 30(2), 93-103.
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Capitalizing on Leadership Capacity: Gifted African American Males in High School (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228658079_Capitalizing_on_Leadership_Capacity_Gifted_African_American_Males_in_High_School [accessed Oct 25 2017].
Dancy, T. E. (2014). (Un) doing hegemony in education: Disrupting school-to-prison pipelines for Black males. Equity & Excellence in Education, 47(4), 476-493.
Davis, J. E. (1994). College in Black and White: Campus environment and academic achievement of African American males. The Journal of Negro Education, 63(4), 620-633.
Ford, D. Y., & Moore, J. L. (2013). Understanding and reversing underachievement, low achievement, and achievement gaps among high-ability African American males in urban school contexts. The Urban Review, 45(4), 399-415.
Harper, S. R. (2009). Niggers no more: A critical race counternarrative on Black male student achievement at predominantly White colleges and universities. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(6), 697-712.
Harper, S. R. (2014). (Re)setting the agenda for college men of color: Lessons learned from a 15-year movement to improve Black male student success. In R. A. Williams (Ed.), Men of color in higher education: New foundations for developing models for succ
Harris III, F., Palmer, R. T., & Struve, L. E. (2011). “Cool posing” on campus: A qualitative study of masculinities and gender expression among Black men at a private research institution. The Journal of Negro Education, 80(1), 47-62.
Howard, T. C. (2016). Why Black lives (and minds) matter: Race, freedom schools & the quest for educational equity. The Journal of Negro Education, 85(2), 101-113.
Howard, T.C., Douglass, T., & Warren, C. (2016). “What works?” Recommendations in transformation of Black male educational outcomes. Teachers College Record, 118(6), 1-10.
Ladson Billings, G. (2011). Boyz to men? Teaching to restore Black boys’ childhood. Race Ethnicity and Education, 14(1), 7-15.
Moore, J. L. III, Madison-Colmore, O., & Smith, D. M. (2003). The prove-them-wrong syndrome: Voices from unheard African-American males in engineering disciplines. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 12(1), 61-73.
Noguera, P. A. (2003). The trouble with Black boys: The role and influence of environmental and cultural factors on the academic performance of African American males. Urban Education, 38(4), 431-459.
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Palmer, R. T., Davis, R. J., & Hilton, A. A. (2009). Exploring challenges that threaten to impede the academic success of academically underprepared Black males at an HBCU. Journal of College Student Development, 50(4), 429-445.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. & Lewis, C. (2013). Letters to our teachers: Black and Latino males write about race in the urban English classroom. In J. Landsman (Ed.), Talking about race: Alleviating the fear (274-290). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Smith, W. A., Allen, W. R, & Danley, L. L. (2007). “Assume the position…you fit the description”: Psychosocial experiences and racial battle fatigue among African American male college students. American Behavioral Scientist, 51, 551-578.
Strayhorn, T. L. & Tillman-Kelly, D. L. (2013). Queering masculinity: Manhood and Black gay men in college. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 1(2), 83-110.
Tatum, A. W. (2008). Toward a more anatomically complete model of literacy instruction: A focus on African American male adolescents and texts. Harvard Educational Review, 78(1), 155-180.
Toldson, I. A., Sutton, R. M., & Brown, R. L. F. (2012). Preventing delinquency and promoting academic success among school-age African American males. Journal of African American Males in Education, 3(1), 12-27.
Wood, J. L. (2014). Apprehension to engagement in the classroom: Perceptions of Black males in the community college. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(6), 785-803.
Wood, J. L., & Essien-Wood, I. (2012). Capital identity projection: Understanding the psychosocial effects of capitalism on Black male community college students. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(5), 984-995.

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