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Black Minds Matter: Weekly Readings
Course readings and materials to support a focus on Black boys and men in education.
Syllabus and Readings
All materials listed here come directly from the Black Minds Matter syllabus, linked as of October 2017. A copy of the syllabus is available here as well.
Readings will be posted in order of the weeks they are assigned.
- BMM Syllabus 10.17.17 Black Minds Matter syllabus from website.
Week One: Linking Black Lives and Black Minds
Advancing Black Male Student Success from Preschool Through Ph. D. by ISBN: 1620361841Publication Date: 2015-10-08
Optional Readings for Week One
Week Three: Ascription of Intelligence
- Sealey-Ruiz, Y. & Lewis, C. (2013). Letters to our teachers: Black and Latino males write about race in the urban English classroom. In J. Landsman (Ed.), Talking about race: Alleviating the fear (pp. 274- 290). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Optional Readings for Week Three
Week Five: Campus Climates and Non-Cognitive Outcomes
Optional Readings for Week Five
Week Seven: Holistic Support for Black Male Learners
Optional Readings for Week Seven
Week Two: Foundations of Black Male Research and Practice
- Harper, S. R. (2015). Black male college achievers and resistant responses to racist stereotypes at predominantly White colleges and universities. Harvard Educational Review, 85(4), 646-674.
Optional Readings for Week Two
- Harper, S. R. (2015). Success in these schools? Visual counternarratives of young men of color and urban high schools they attend. Urban Education, 50(2), 139-169.
- Strayhorn, T. L. & Tillman-Kelly, D. L. (2013). Queering masculinity: Manhood and Black gay men in college. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, 1(2), 83-110.
Week Four: Assumptions of Criminality
Black Male(d) by ISBN: 9780807754900Publication Date: 2013-12-28
- Dancy, T. E. (2014). (Un) doing hegemony in education: Disrupting school-to-prison pipelines for Black males. Equity & Excellence in Education, 47(4), 476-493.
Optional Readings for Week Four
Week Six: Promising Practices for Teaching and Learning
Required Book (select one of these two books)
Teaching Boys and Young Men of Color by ISBN: 9780997218008Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Teaching Men of Color in the Community College by Call Number: SYLVANIA RESERVEISBN: 9780744229523Publication Date: 2015-01-01
- Howard, T. C., Douglass, T., & Warren, C. (2016). “What works?” Recommendations in transformation of Black male educational outcomes. Teachers College Record, 118(6), 1-10.
- Essien, I. (2017). Teaching Black boys in early childhood education: Promising practices from exemplar teachers. Journal of African American Males in Education, 8(2), 3-27.
Optional Readings for Week Six
Week Eight: Advancing Black Male Policy, Support and Research
- Jackson, J. F. L. (2008). Race segregation across the academic workforce: Exploring factors that may contribute to the disparate representation of African American men. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(7), 1004-1029.
- Lewis, C. (2006). African American male teachers in public schools: An examination of three urban school districts. Teachers College Record, 108(2), 224-245.
Optional Readings for Week Eight
- Wood. J. L., & Palmer, R. T. (2012). Innovative initiatives and recommendations for practice and future research: enhancing the status of Black men in HBCUs and beyond. In R. T. Palmer & J. L. Wood (Eds.), Black men in college: Implications for HBCUs and
- Lewis, C. (2013). Black male teachers’ path to U.S. K-12 classrooms: Framing the national discussion. In C. Lewis & I. Toldson (Eds.). Black male teachers: Diversifying the United States’ teacher workforce (pp. 3- 14). United Kingdom: Emerald.