(2018). A Narrative Inquiry into African American Female Faculty Research Mentorship Experiences in Counselor Education. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Orleans. The purpose of this qualitative, narratological research was to gain a deeper understanding of the stories of three African American counselor educators who experienced research mentorship as counseling students and faculty members while working towards tenure. The three participants were employed as assistant professors in CACREP-accredited counselor education graduate programs provided their perspectives of research mentorship. The primary research question for my research was: How do pre-tenured African American female counselor educators perceive their research mentorship experiences? The foundation for my study was provided by the review of literature that focused on critical race theory, marginalized groups in academe, mentorship among specific populations, and research mentorship. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The transcribed interviews, vitas, and faculty profiles were analyzed by within-case and cross-case analysis. The findings indicated seven… [Direct]
(2018). From Roots to Star Trek: A Case Study on Successful Persistence of African American Male Engineering Majors. ProQuest LLC, D.Ed. Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and universities (Strayhorn, 2010) and many of those pursuing an engineering degree often are not academically prepared for a career in engineering. There are African American males who have successfully persisted in engineering; however, limited research is provided about the success of these African American males and their experiences in engineering programs. The purpose of this study was to understand factors that impact successful persistence of African American male engineering majors at a predominantly White institution. Critical Race Theory was used as a framework to gain a broader scope of the underlying themes interwoven into the fabric of American society and a better understanding of the perceptions about African American male… [Direct]
(2024). Abandoned Lands: Toward a Critical Race Pedagogy and Framework for Content Analysis of U.S. History Curriculum. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, the perceived use of critical theoretical frameworks to shape instruction in public K-12 education is undergoing intense scrutiny in popular and political debate. Chief among such frameworks has been Critical Race Theory (CRT), which, at the time of this writing, has been legally banned or restricted in eighteen states — with similar efforts having been undertaken in twenty-seven others (Schwartz, 2023). This includes New York State (NYS). Concurrently, critical race theorists of education have called for the intentional use of CRT to construct new pedagogical approaches for education generally (Lynn, 2019), and social studies education specifically (Vickery & Rodriguez, 2022). The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not four official New York State (NYS) social studies education sources should be deemed as constituting a CRT-based approach to implementing U.S. History curriculum. More specifically, this study assessed the extent to which, if at all, CRT… [Direct]
(2010). Critical Race Theory and Social Studies: Centering the Native American Experience. Journal of Social Studies Research, v34 n1 p29-58. This article looks at the ways in which the topic of race is treated in social studies classrooms and the conceptual application of the field of critical race theory (CRT) to the teaching of American history. The author discusses the field of the social studies in terms of its stated goals and how these goals are not met because of a lack of attention that is paid to the pervasive power of race in US history. By discussing the tenets of CRT, the author argues that US history be taught from a race-based perspective, given the influence that race has had on the unfolding of the American nation state. In addition to discussing the fundamental characteristics of CRT, the author then gives ideas and concrete examples of how CRT can be used in the classroom to teach the topic of Native American history…. [Direct]
(2023). "Nothing about Us without Us": A Qualitative Inquiry of Disabled Student Activists Creating Disability Cultural Centers on College Campuses. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, California State University, Sacramento. This qualitative study explores the experiences and perspectives of disabled student activists involved in the creation of disability cultural centers (DCCs) on college and university campuses in the United States. The main purpose is to advance recognition of disability as a marginalized student identity on college campuses in need of safe spaces of belonging and refuge from ableism, and to promote the continued expansion of DCCs as meeting this need. Combining Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) methodology with narrative inquiry, the study aimed to explore four research questions: 1) How do disabled students describe the reasons propelling them to create DCCs? 2) How do disabled students describe their roles in the creation of DCCs? 3) What do disabled students perceive as the facilitators and barriers to engaging with universities to create DCCs? 4) How do disabled student activists describe the benefits of DCCs to the disabled student population and the larger campus… [Direct]
(2021). Language Use and Educational Attainment among Southeast Asian American Students: Implications for K-12 School Systems. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rochester. Scholars who study Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities are in consensus that this group's realities diverge from their Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) counterparts. In fact, nearly four decades after large-scale immigration as political refugees from Southeast Asia (SEA), this population composed of Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians, and Vietnamese people still continues to struggle with academic, social, and economic mobility in the United States. Nonetheless, SEAAs are enveloped in the model minority myth, which positions all AAPIs as successful. As a result, SEAAs are overlooked and consequently, understudied. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the association between language use and the educational attainment levels of SEAA students through disaggregated data for a more accurate representation of their school experiences. This dissertation employs the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS: 1991-2006), which offers access to SEAA student… [Direct]
(2014). Does the "Negro" "Still" Need Separate Schools? Single-Sex Educational Settings as Critical Race Counterspaces. Urban Education, v49 n6 p666-697 Sep. This article explores whether contemporary educators should consider single-sex educational settings as viable interventions in educating African American males. Using qualitative data from a 2-year study of single-sex educational spaces in two Los Angeles County high schools, the authors argue that when all-male spaces effectively function as Critical Race Theory "counterspaces," the educational experiences of high school–aged Black males are positively transformed. These cocurricular, single-sex counterspaces can effectively shield Black males from the marginalizing effects of urban schooling while serving as platforms for productive reengagement in positive school trajectories. Research-based principles for designing effective single-sex educational settings are discussed…. [Direct]
(2014). Classrooms of Spatial Justice: Counter-Spaces and Young Men of Color in a GED Program. Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, v64 n2 p110-127 May. This article, based on an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED) program, suggests that for some marginalized young men of color, Adult education programs are counter-spaces of spatial justice in opposition to previous negative school spaces. Framed by critical race theory (CRT) and drawing on critical geography and adult education literature on space and place, the author defines these counter-spaces through four dimensions: place, temporal, intrapersonal, and interpersonal, maintaining that they are not equivalent to activities or experiences although they may inhabit them. The article concludes with implications for the use of CRT in understanding GED as potential counter-space…. [Direct]
(2014). The Undocumented (Im)Migrant Educational Pipeline: The Influence of Citizenship Status on Educational Attainment for People of Mexican Origin. Urban Education, v49 n1 p75-110 Jan. Recently, we have witnessed three trends impacting educational experiences for undocumented Mexican students: (a) a dramatic increase of Mexican-origin people, (b) organized and openly supported anti-immigrant policies with a racial dimension, and (c) increased participation by politicized migrants in national public discussions on immigration. Still, there is little research on the educational outcomes of undocumented migrants. Through critical race theory (CRT), this study offers a quantitative intersectional approach that disaggregates the specific influence of gender, race, and citizenship on educational attainment. Our findings challenge traditional homogenizing narratives of the Chicana/o educational pipeline, calling for an intersectional examination of the nuanced educational experiences of people of Mexican origin (POMO)…. [Direct]
(2011). The Aesthetics of White Racism in Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Critical Race Theory Perspective. Race, Ethnicity and Education, v14 n4 p461-479. The authors use critical race theory (CRT) and critical race feminism (CRF) as a lens for analyzing and grappling with White students' resistance to learning about and deconstructing systems of oppression. The authors build on the work of critical scholars whose work exposes the ways in which White pre-service teachers resist counter-hegemonic pedagogical approaches and subject matter. In the so-called \post-racial\ era, these ways of resisting have become more virulent and structural in nature, thereby institutionalizing racism. Included in the article are excerpts from the authors' end of the academic year teaching evaluations. The excerpted comments serve as evidence that students use evaluations as weapons to speak back to and against, not only to anti-racist philosophies, but counter-hegemonic narratives that represent the diversity of their future teaching experiences. Both faculty members are formally trained in social work, multicultural education, and educational policy…. [Direct]
(2022). Who You With: A Qualitative Analysis Exploring Why Students of Color Join Historically White Greek Letter Organizations. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, St. Edward's University. While scholars produce findings on how membership in historically white Greek letter organizations impacts racial identity, there is a lack of research addressing why students of color join historically white Greek letter organizations and how awareness of culturally based organizations impact their decision to join a Greek letter organization. Through exploring these research questions, this study will help educate Sorority and Fraternity Life professionals, national leadership, parents and our very own Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors on what factors contribute to students of color joining historically white Greek organizations. The results from this study can impact recruitment practices from national organization leadership and local campus-based professionals. This study will utilize narrative methodology, Critical Race Theory and Astin's Theory of Involvement to critically examine how race contributed to the participants' selecting and seeking membership in a… [Direct]
(2020). Creating "Fugitive Spaces" in Educator Professional Development: A Critical Case Study of Transformative Adult Learning for Equity and Inclusion. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Lewis and Clark College. Despite policy efforts over the last few decades to address racial disparities in education, often in the form of educator professional development, racism still manifests in educator practice, and Whiteness is often centered in the very processes designed to address exclusion. While research exists critiquing how systemic racism and Whiteness are reproduced in educator professional development, there is far less empirical exploration of more transformative adult learning practices to advance equity and inclusion. Utilizing critical adult learning, critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and sociocultural transformative learning theory, this study identifies a potential "fugitive space" in educator professional development designed to disrupt this reproduction of Whiteness. This critical case study of transformation utilized culturally responsive interviews of 16 participants and document review to understand how both participants of color and White participants… [Direct]
(2022). Why Have We Been Trying to Solve a Non-Academic Issue with an Academic Solution?. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota. This research will use evocative autoethnography to examine how effective the Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA) was with Black Male students' success by centering relationships. This study will be examining data expanding a period of August 2014 to May 2021. The research will be conducted using traditional qualitative research strategies. These are the researcher's account of events that will include detailed notes, emails, personal interactions, program evaluations, videos, interviews, 100 day listening tour, school board meeting presentations, and focus groups. I utilize three bodies of literature; Culturally Responsive School Leadership's tenet of critical self-awareness; Critical Race Theory's tenet of counter storytelling and finally, School Culture for Black Males. Due to the academic outcomes that have been garnered by this large urban district prior to the creation of this department, Black Males were at or near the bottom on every academic success indicator…. [Direct]
(2010). Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color. Journal of Marriage and Family, v72 n3 p440-459 Jun. In the millennium's inaugural decade, 2 interrelated trends influenced research on America's families of color: the need for new knowledge about America's growing ethnic/racial minority and immigrant populations and conceptual advances in critical race theories and perspectives on colorism. Three substantive areas reflecting researchers' interests in these trends emerged as the most frequently studied topics about families of color: inequality and socioeconomic mobility within and across families, interracial romantic pairings, and the racial socialization of children. In this review, we synthesize and critique the decade's scholarly literature on these topics. We devote special attention to advances in knowledge made by family-relevant research that incorporated ways of thinking from critical race theories and the conceptual discourse on colorism…. [Direct]
(2021). Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in the Social Sciences. Social Science Education Consortium Book Series. IAP – Information Age Publishing, Inc. The United States' social and economic inequities stood in high relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, spotlighting the glaringly disproportionate systemic injustices related to public health and the economic impact on minoritized communities. Realities of structural and institutionalized racism and classism were exposed to greater degrees as we sought to understand and investigate the inequitable impact regarding health and income disparities for African American, Latinx, and Native American communities, as well as racial violence explicitly targeting Asian American communities. Further exacerbating the polarized sociopolitical landscape amidst the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, witnessed by countless people around the world, resulted in anguish and drew heightened attention to the insidious racial injustice and ongoing racial violence that continues to plague the nation. As many advocates took to the streets in an attempt to have their voices heard in the continued… [Direct]