{"title":"Bettina Love (2023). Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal","authors":"Charity Martin-King","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09657-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09657-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141125944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Attitudes Towards Criminal Justice Policy","authors":"Anthony D. Greene","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09653-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09653-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140973452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William R. Turner, Robert Dobmeier, Kara Hiltz, Chelsea Hunt, Carina Chanthabandith, Anthony Silsby, Madison Ross
{"title":"Estranged Relations: African American Student Experiences with University Police on a Predominantly White Campus","authors":"William R. Turner, Robert Dobmeier, Kara Hiltz, Chelsea Hunt, Carina Chanthabandith, Anthony Silsby, Madison Ross","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09651-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09651-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>African Americans and other Black Students on predominantly white college campuses often face challenges in becoming fully integrated into these white-normed spaces. In the current cultural climate, policing and the Black community has received growing national attention. This has served to raise questions about how these types of relationships exist in college communities. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the nature of the interactions between African American and other Black students with campus police in the northeastern United States. Using an exploratory qualitative design, one core concept of estrangement emerged along with three main categories on how estrangement operated in this higher educational context. The three main categories include cultural influences, racial oppression, and trauma. The results from the study suggest that African American and other Black students employ varying types of estrangement to avoid direct contact with campus police who are viewed as campus agents that function to perpetuate white supremacist norms on campus. The article concludes with a discussion and practical implications of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140939913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Waging a Battle for First Class Citizenship”: Black Women, Beauty Advertisements, and the Horror of Inequity","authors":"Leah Tonnette Gaines, Veda Massanari-Thatcher","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09652-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09652-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Set in 1950s Chicago, episode 5 of horror and sci-fi series, <i>Lovecraft Country</i>, followed Ruby Baptiste, a full-figured and dark skinned Black woman. Because of her race, Ruby was unable to get a job. However, after she ingested a magic potion that painfully transformed her into a thin White woman, the hiring manager of an upscale department store offered White woman Ruby a supervisory role. Passing as a White woman allowed Ruby to experience life free from the limitations of segregation and discrimination. Ruby’s experiences led the researchers of this work to wonder: could this episode be a dramatization of Black women’s real experiences in 1950s Chicago? Analyzing beauty advertisements in the <i>Chicago Defender</i>, we noticed that many beauty products advertised to Black women, focused on the equality and social mobility that beauty could provide Black women. The findings of this research unpack how a new ethnic identity, cleanliness, and first-class citizenship were advertised to Black women under the guise of beauty.</p>","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140939891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bobby J. Smith II: Food Power Politics—The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement","authors":"Tawanna Williams","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09647-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09647-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kahlil Green, Devron Dickens, Dawn Thurman, Laurens G. Van Sluytman
{"title":"The Disproportionate Use of Corporal Punishment on African American Children in U.S. Schools","authors":"Kahlil Green, Devron Dickens, Dawn Thurman, Laurens G. Van Sluytman","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09646-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09646-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The United States Supreme Court ruled School Corporal Punishment (SCP) constitutional, legalizing the practice in 19 states. Annually, approximately 163,333 students are subject to this practice, and 57,000 incidents involve African American students. Moreover, the lack of Federal advocacy and public knowledge of this social problem is more likely linked to SCP mainly practiced in southern states. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory, a content analysis of SCP documents from 1996 to 2018 was collected from school districts in seven prevalent SCP states using the following terms: SCP, Black students, and Black population. This policy report examines states’ SCP policies, identifies factors that influenced policies, and discusses the future of SCP<i>.</i> Findings suggest that SCP negatively impacted the academic achievement and future endeavors of African American students. One recommendation for a successful alternative of SCP strategies is the information involvement of relevant stakeholders and Government officials as several policies excluded members in the implementation process. </p>","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140171661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"African American Heritage and Legacy: Implications on the Current Armed Forces","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s12111-023-09641-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-023-09641-6","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>America recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of the military, and while some might boast that the Black population within the military (around 17%) is more representative than the Black population in America (around 12%), there is still more that should be done to promote equity in armed service in the USA. Of course, such representation is positive, but it does not tell the whole story of how well Black service members are surviving and thriving. This paper will link manifestations of thriving and surviving over time to present-day recruiting shortfalls.</p>","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140002637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Institutional Oppression and Intersectionality","authors":"Injung Lee, Eunae Han","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09645-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09645-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An increasing number of Black females pursue post-baccalaureate degrees to make academia their professional career. However, they frequently face multiple layers of systemic oppression that marginalize their identity as Black females. Systemic oppression in the programmatic, departmental, and university context shapes Black females’ experiences and affects their view of themselves. In light of the political structure of higher academia, this can create further systemic barriers to their successful pursuit of an academic career. In this article, attention is concentrated on how institutional and systematic oppression works against Black females in developing professional identity as they pursue their professional careers in higher education. Specifically, this article will cover how various contexts can influence their identity at multiple stages of career development. An intensive discussion on the history of institutional oppression towards Black females in academia and multiple case studies will help readers understand how social inequalities are perpetuated by institutional oppression.</p>","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139752439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Black Studies Professor Who Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk: A Conversation with OSU Professor and Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of African American Studies, Judson L. Jeffries, PhD","authors":"Kevin L. Brooks","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09643-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09643-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139787235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Black Studies Professor Who Talks the Talk and Walks the Walk: A Conversation with OSU Professor and Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of African American Studies, Judson L. Jeffries, PhD","authors":"Kevin L. Brooks","doi":"10.1007/s12111-024-09643-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-024-09643-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42334,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139847434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}