African Americans in Higher Education

"African Americans in Higher Education is a multidisciplinary text that is far-reaching in scope. The text presents 16 chapters focused on Black male identity, hip hop, adult learners, leadership at HBCUs, critical Black pedagogy, Black women's narratives, Black single parenting, Afro-Brazilian music, resistance strategies, ontology of Africana rhetoric, visionary analysis, and cultural literacy. With such broadness and diversity, the challenge for the editors was in creating seamlessness within and among chapters that works together to create "a" story of the African American experience coherently in one book. The greatest strength of the text is in each author's ability to simultaneously use personal experience, professional knowledge, and research to make chapters as personal and meaningful as they are scholarly and informative." (Click HERE to read full review at Teachers College Record.)
"This collection of essays explores the African-American experience in education from a variety of interesting angles. Focused mainly but not exclusively on higher education, the book engages both campus concerns and community factors that contribute to the ongoing crisis that is black education in the USA. African Americans in Higher Education successfully incorporates the power of subjective inquiry and testimony with formal academic investigation to provide numerous critical insights. Spanning the 20th Century to contemporary times, discussing issues ranging from navigating PWIs to black autonomous efforts such as ASALH and many points between, this book is a timely contribution to the literature on African American education."--W.S. Tkweme, Director of Graduate Studies, Pan-African Studies, University of Louisville
"Too often, the study of the relationship between African Americans and educational institutions is one in which African Americans are acted upon, as opposed to active agents and innovators whose interventions in spaces of education have the potential to transform those spaces into engines of Africana innovation and upward mobility. This volume, African Americans in Higher Education: A Critical Study of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Africana Culture, in many ways takes the latter approach and interrogates the ways in which Africana culture, methods and pedagogy inform the experiences of African American students, teachers and education researchers. From Africana curriculum and pedagogy in predominantly white institutions and HBCUs to the varied experiences of African American men and women as teachers and graduate students, this book allows readers to place African Americans at the center of discussions of race, gender, identity and education policy. Readers will also appreciate the attention given to African American youth in primary and secondary education. African Americans in Higher Education is a much-needed addition to Africana and education studies."--Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Ph.D., Executive Director - Black Metropolis Research Consortium, University of Chicago Library