Race discrimination and disproportionality is commonplace within United States school discipline procedures, as research suggests that African American students receive disciplinary action more frequently and severely than ...

James Baldwin’s mobility and appreciation for African American musical traditions play an integral part in the writer’s crossing of genre and subgenre, his unique style, and his preoccupation with repeated themes. The ...

This project examines the figure of the black Indian in the work of six significant American writers: John Marrant, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The complex ...

Suicide within the African American community is paradoxical; despite the overrepresentation of potentially suicidogenic factors (i.e., discrimination), a relatively low number of suicide deaths are reported. Research has ...

The following study was conducted using a sample of African American college students who were administered the African American Acculturation Scale (Klonoff & Landrine, 1994). The results of the scale were analyzed using ...

In this study, I use Group-Based Trajectory Modeling and Multinomial Logit Regression Modeling to test and extend Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) self-control theory. Specifically, I examine the following: 1) the stability ...

The study sought to understand the experiences of African American female athletes and identity formation in the context of a predominantly white institution (PWI). Employing critical race theory and Black feminist thought ...

When compared to White students, Black students underperform at every level of academics. Yet, Black students tend to report significantly higher attitudes toward doing well in school than do White students. One explanation ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of African American students at a traditionally white university regarding their academic and social experiences in the context of the current legal challenges to ...

Despite lore that eating disorders do not affect underrepresented ethnic groups (e.g., Smolak & Striegel-Moore, 2001), epidemiological data suggests that African American girls are vulnerable to eating disorder pathology ...