Journal of Black Studies 

About: Journal of Black Studies is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Racism & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0021-9347. Over the lifetime, 2043 publications have been published receiving 36123 citations.

Beyond a Test Score: Explaining Opportunity Gaps in Educational Practice

Abstract: The author shares an opportunity gap explanatory framework to assist educational researchers and theorists in analyzing, explaining, and naming educational practice, especially in highly diverse an...

The Afrocentric Paradigm: Contours and Definitions

Abstract: It has been 20 years since Molefi Asante (1980) published Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. This book, along with The Afrocentric Idea (Asante, 1987) and Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge (Asante, 1990), introduced fundamental referential changes in the African community. Today, Afrocentricity is widely discussed in the United States, of course, but also in Africa, Europe, South and Central America, and the Caribbean. In short, it has become a formidable Pan-African force that must be reckoned with. The reason for its appeal lies both in the disturbing conditions of African people and the remedy that Afrocentricity suggests. Afrocentricity contends that our main problem as African people is our usually unconscious adoption of the Western worldview and perspective and their attendant conceptual frameworks. The list of those ideas and theories that have invaded our lives as normal, natural, or even worse, ideal is infinite. How many of us have really paused to seriously examine and challenge such ideas as development, planning, progress, the need for democracy, and the nation-state as the best form of political and social organization, to name only a few? Our failure to recognize the roots of such ideas in the European cultural ethos has led us, willingly or unwillingly, to agree to footnote status in the White man's book. We thus find ourselves relegated to the periphery, the margin, of the European experience, to use Molefi Asante's terms-spectators of a show that defines us from without. In other words, and to use Afrocentric terminology again, we do not exist on our own terms but on borrowed, European ones. We are dislocated, and having lost sight of our-

Black Adolescents' Racial Socialization Experiences Their Relations to Home, School, and Peer Self-Esteem

Abstract: This study explored the relationship between parental racial socialization messages and area-specific self-esteem (i.e., home, school, and peer self-esteem) among Black American adolescents. The au...

The Relation Of Racial Identity And Racial Socialization To Coping With Discrimination Among African American Adolescents

Abstract: This study purposed to explore whether the strategies used by African American adolescents to cope with perceived discriminatory experiences were related to their racial identity and racial sociali...

The Continuing Significance of Racism Discrimination Against Black Students in White Colleges

Abstract: In the last few years we have seen a growing concern among academic administrators and educational researchers about Black student enrollment and attrition rates. A number of survey studies (Astin, 1977, 1982) have found that college enrollment and graduation rates for Black Americans have declined in many programs. In a recent major review of the literature, George Keller (19881989), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and recipient of the Casey Award in education planning, examined nine books, reports, and special journal issues devoted to assessing the problems of minority access and achievement in higher education. Keller's analysis (pp. 50-54), representative of much social science and policy analysis of minority problems, notes the extensive discussion of minority student attrition and suggests 10 reasons that are documented in the literature he reviewed: