The Journal of Negro Education back issues from July 2005:
Black Student Achievement and the Oppositional Culture Model
Jul 01, 2005; ... This study explores the connection between Black student achievement and the oppositional culture model. The author examined the educational experience of both under-achieving and high-achieving high school students of African heritage in one urban high school in Massachusetts. Utilizing data ...
Reclaiming Segregation-Era, African American Schoolhouses: Building on Symbols of Past Cooperation
Jul 01, 2005; ... This article explores the significance of segregation-era African American schoolhouses and the efforts of community groups engaged in their preservation. Beyond preservation and the creation of local history museums, groups also desire to use these facilities as spaces to house various ...
Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess
Jul 01, 2005; ... This article argues that children's self-image is affected by the ways in which they see themselves in texts both verbal and visual, and that fairy tales play an important role in shaping self-image and the belief-system of children. The images found in fairy tales, therefore, have particular ...
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement
Jul 01, 2005; ... Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement, by John U. Ogbu (with the assistance of Astrid Davis). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 320 pp. $32.50, paperback. The education community suffered a major loss with the passing of John U ....
Educating Democratic Minds in South African Public Schools: African Teachers' Perceptions of Good Citizenship
Jul 01, 2005; ... The notion that South African public schools have a distinctively civic mission has been recognized in all national education policy documents published since the first democratic election in 1994. The African National Congress (ANC) government immediately began to realize that if the new-found ...
A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community
Jul 01, 2005; ... A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community, by Winifred E. Pitts. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2003. 218 pp., $43.00, paperback. Winifred E. Pitts in A Victory of Sorts: Desegregation in a Southern Community provides a substantive review of the ...
Editor's Comment
Jul 01, 2005; ... Kenneth B. Clark (1914-2005) passed away several months ago in early May, shortly after the spring issue of The Journal of Negro Education (JNE) went to press. Therefore, in this summer issue, it is only proper that Howard University and the Journal honor the distinguished career of Kenneth ...
Fresh Out of School: Rap Music's Discursive Battle With Education
Jul 01, 2005; ... The "Discourse" [a way of life] of rap music is in the midst of a "battle" with that of education, where rap music resists and critiques education as a dominant and domineering Discourse. In this article, as a means of exploring the contours of this battle, the author analyzes rap music lyrics ...
Peer Relations and School Resistance: Does Oppositional Culture Apply to Race or to Gender?
Jul 01, 2005; ... Oppositional culture theory argues that members of involuntary minority groups tend to underachieve in high school for fear that they be accused of "acting white." The underlying assumption, then, is that academic success harms peer relationships for involuntary minorities more than it does for ...
The Effects of Parental Involvement on the Academic Achievement of African American Youth
Jul 01, 2005; ... Using the 1992 National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) data set, this study assessed the effects of parental involvement on the academic achievement of African American 12th grade youth, using several models. The results indicate that parental involvement had a positive impact on the ...
Culture and Counseling: New Approaches
Jul 01, 2005; ... Culture and Counseling: New Approaches, edited by Frederick. D. Harper and John McFadden. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003. 426 pages, $81.60, hardcover. With more than two hundred texts currently existing and addressing the topic of cultural diversity in counseling, the question must be ...
Non-Traditional Entrants To Higher Education: They Talk About People Like Me
Jul 01, 2005; ... Non-Traditional Entrants To Higher Education: They Talk About People Like Me, by Marion Bowl. Sterling, VA: Trentham Books, 2003. 192 pp., $26.50, paperback. This book tells the personal and educational stories of thirty-two non-traditional students in the British higher education ...