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Black Women in Leadership explores the leadership experiences of Black women within macro level (such as education, industry, and social services) and micro level (such as family and individual churches) contexts. The interdisciplinary work examines leadership practices, highlighting the historical and current triumphs and barriers of Black women in these roles.

Black Women in Leadership explores the leadership experiences of Black women within macro level (such as education, industry, and social services) and micro level (such as family and individual churches) contexts. The interdisciplinary work examines leadership practices, highlighting the historical and current triumphs and barriers of Black women in these roles.

Examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. This book features untold tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists. It deals with the Black student movement in North Carolina and Duke University.

Spiritual Discourse in the Academy reaches out to educators, scholars, and students who are interested in the multiple roles of spirituality in schooling and society at large. It can be used for teaching courses in spirituality, education, religious studies, and cultural studies.

Spiritual Discourse in the Academy reaches out to educators, scholars, and students who are interested in the multiple roles of spirituality in schooling and society at large. It can be used for teaching courses in spirituality, education, religious studies, and cultural studies.

Minding Their Own Business: Five Female Leaders from Trinidad and Tobago is a narrative project that illuminates the historical legacy of entrepreneurship, self-employment, and collective economics within the African diaspora, particularly in the lives of five women leaders of African descent from Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean.

Border Crossing "Brothas" examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross literal and figurative borders.

Presents a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina.

Presents a large-scale evaluation of a theory-driven school reform project in New Zealand, which focuses on improving educational achievement of Maori students in public secondary schools. In this book, the project's conceptual underpinnings are based on Kaupapa Maori research, and relationship-based pedagogy.

(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts

Black Megachurch Culture

Courageous Voices of Immigrants and Transnationals of Color

Conducting Multi-Generational Qualitative Research in Education

The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. This book analyzes the transformational leadership, servant leadership, and social justice leadership found in the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde.

African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom

African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom

Drawing upon an audience of scholars and practitioners to support its propositions, this book moves away from talking about the problems to conveying a well designed multi-disciplinary and detailed change strategy. It challenges traditional beliefs, praxes and strategies that typically start with a focus on youth as the central point.

Covers a spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. This anthology extends discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers through lens of ecofeminist veganism, and post-9/11 racial geopolitics.

Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative, this book offers an examination of the performative sustainability of race, art depictions of African American culture in the rural south, educational and pedagogical contexts, dramatic and film representation, and intersections of race and gender performance.

Addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are working in Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. This title brings African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice.

Addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are working in Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. This title brings African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice.

Artful Stories

Presents a large-scale evaluation of a theory-driven school reform project in New Zealand, which focuses on improving educational achievement of Maori students in public secondary schools. In this book, the project's conceptual underpinnings are based on Kaupapa Maori research, and relationship-based pedagogy.

Analyzes how - and how well - one company, Reconstruction, Inc of Philadelphia, has organized returning prisoners, their families, and communities for 24 years. This book looks at Reconstruction's programs, strategies, and patterns of change over time; and holistic and principled transformations in the people and families it has touched.

Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness

Authentic Blackness - Real Blackness

Charts the education and career trajectories of African American women scientists and sheds light as to why young African American females drop off the science map in high school. This book constructs a story about the map, which includes exits, entrances and turns.

Daughters of Seclusion

This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching.

This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching.