The SAGE Handbook of African American Education

Linda C. Tillman - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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Anthropology & Archaeology (General) | Area and Ethnic Studies (General) | Education

September 2008 | 584 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Handbook of African American Education reflects historical and current perspectives on African Americans in secondary and post-secondary education. Its content promotes inquiry and development of questions, ideas and dialogue about critical practice, theory, and research about African Americans in the United States educational system.

The Handbook serves as a comprehensive collection of scholarship that presents theoretical and empirical work on historical perspectives, teaching and learning, secondary school leadership, higher education, current issues, and education policy. This comprehensive body of work will also make significant contributions to the scholarship on African Americans in the broad context of United States education and society.

Linda C. Tillman

Editor's Introduction

Gloria J. Ladson-Billings

Introduction

Section I: The Education of Black Folk: Historical Perspectives

Derrick P. Alridge and V. P. Franklin

Introduction

Adah Ward Randolph

1. To Gain and to Lose: The Loving School and the African American Struggle for Education in Columbus, Ohio, 1831-1882

Derrick P. Alridge

2. African American Educators and the Black Intellectual Tradition

V. P. Franklin

3. "They Rose or Fell Together": African American Educators and Community Leadership, 1795-1954

Linda M. Perkins

4. The History of Black Women Graduate Students, 1921-1948

Michael Fultz

5. Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dissolution of Black State Teachers Associations, 1954-1970

Section II: The Landscape of Teaching and Learning for African Americans in U.S. Schooling

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

Introduction

Peter C. Murrell Jr

6. Identity, Agency, and Culture: Black Achievement and Educational Attainment

Yolanda J. Majors and Sana Ansari

7. Cultural Community Practices as Urban Classroom Resources

H. Richard Milner IV

8. Preparing Teachers of African American Students in Urban Schools

Mari Ann Roberts and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

9. African American Teachers' Caring Behaviors: The Difference Makes a Difference

Cheryl Fields-Smith

10. After "It Takes A Village": Mapping the Terrain of Black Parental Involvement in the Post-Brown Era

Section III: African American Leaders in PK-12 Educational Leadership

Linda C. Tillman

Introduction

Linda C. Tillman

11. African American Principals and the Legacy of Brown

Robert Cooper and Will J. Jordan

12. Leadership Challenges in K-12 Urban Education: Prospective African American Administrators' Views on Educating African American Students and Closing the Achievement Gap

Tondra L. Loder-Jackson

13. The Confluence of Race, Gender, and Generation in the Lives of African American Women Principals

Mark A. Gooden

14. Race, Law, and Leadership: Exploring the Interest-Convergence Dilemma

Kay Lovelace Taylor and Linda C. Tillman

15. African American Superintendents in Public School Districts

Section IV: African Americans in Higher Education

Kofi Lomotey

Introduction

Eddie Comeaux and Walter R. Allen

16. Exclusions and Illusions: Rethinking the Mysterious UC Admissions Process that Disadvantages Deserving African American Students

Jon A. Yasin

17. Hip Hop: A Source of Empowerment for African American Male College Students

William A. Smith

18. Campuswide Climate: Implications for African American Students

Kofi Lomotey and Sessi S. F. Aboh

19. Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Catalysts to Liberation?

Lynette L. Danley, Roderic R. Land, and Kofi Lomotey

20. The Power of Pathways: Strategies for the Preparation of African American Faculty

Section V: Current Issues: Theory and Research on the Participation of African Americans in U.S. Education

Gwendolyn Cartledge

Introduction

Marvin Lynn and Thurman L. Bridges III

21. Critical Race Studies in Education and the "Endarkened" Wisdom of Carter G. Woodson

James L. Moore III and Delila Owens

22. Educating and Counseling African American Students: Recommendations for Teachers and School Counselors

Carol E. Malloy and Richard Noble III

23. The Education of African American Students in Charter Schools: Four Case Studies

Gwendolyn Cartledge and Charles Dukes

24. Disproportionality of African American Children in Special Education: Definition and Dimensions

James Earl Davis

25. Toward Understanding African American Males and K-12 Education

Section VI: African Americans Shaping Educational Policy?

Jennifer Beaumont

Introduction

Jennifer Beaumont

26. Creating Opportunities for Educational Success: Oral Histories of Four African Americans Shaping Education Policy

Eric J. Cooper

27. Realities and Responsibilities in the Education Village

Sabrina Hope King and Nancy M. Cardwell

28. Creating a New Model of Education for African-American Children: Mobilizing Stakeholder Partners in Service to Sustained Academic Success

Sheilah D. Vance

29. Beyond Segregation: The Continuing Struggle for Educational Equity 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

30. Educating Black Youth for Economic Empowerment: Democratic Economic Participation and School Reform Practices and Policies

Joyce Elaine King

Epilogue: Black Education Post-Katrina: And All Us We Are Not Saved

Lynette L. Danley, Roderic R. Land, and Kofi Lomotey

Appendix: Graduate School Programs to Prepare Future Faculty of Color

"This handbook represents the most comprehensive collection of research on African Americans in education to date. Its breadth spans the historical, the political, institutional and community forces that have shaped educational opportunities and attainment among African Americans. The review of extant research on a range of topics from the role of culture and identity in learning, teacher preparation, educational leadership, to higher education and educational policy is far-reaching and cutting edge. This volume has historic significance and will become a classic collection on African American education for scholars and practitioners alike."

Carol D. Lee, Professor, Northwestern University
Vice-President, Division G, American Educational Research Association

Carol D. Lee, Professor, Northwestern University

Vice-President, Division G, American Educational Research Association

“A wise scientist once argued that to doubt everything or to believe
everything often results in the same solution set; both eliminate the
need for reflection. This handbook provides an intellectual space for
those interested in true reflection on the human ecology of the African
American experience in schools, communities, and society. The /Handbook
of African American Education/ is a repository of information developed
to advance the human service professional.”

William F. Tate IV

Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

William F. Tate IV

Washington University in St. Louis

"The SAGE Handbook of African American Education is a unique, comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical scholarship in six important areas: historical perspectives, teaching and learning, Pre-K-12 school leadership, higher education, current issues, and education policy."

TEACHERS OF COLOR

"It is an impressive volume that provides a breadth of information on the current status of African American education."

Paul O. Myhre

Teaching Theology and Religion