Drawing on critical childhood studies, Michael J. Dumas and Joseph Derrick Nelson argue
that Black boyhood is socially unimagined and unimaginable, largely due to the devalued …

Explores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to
interrogate what “the child” makes possible The concept of childhood contains many …

Drawing on interviews that span over seven years, Derrick R. Brooms provides detailed
accounts of a select group of Black young men's pathways from secondary school through …

With the rise of social media, the public has been bombarded by media clips of people of
African ancestry being assaulted or gunned down in their own communities. However, the …

This thesis explores the social, political, and theoretical consequences that emerge when
the contested category of “childhood” gets unequally applied to individuals and populations …

Based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a high school ELL classroom, this
study contributes to the fields of new literacies studies and critical pedagogy by showing …

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the support and
practices Black Males received to graduate high school successfully. This study is important …

As our country currently exists, racism and anti-Blackness via racial violence, police brutality,
police shootings of unarmed Black people, race riots, and public shootings are …

It is not known why the chronic mis-education of Black students has neither been adequately
investigated nor treated as the most significant, widespread phenomenon of twenty-first …

The thesis explores the impact of COVID-19 on marginalized communities, particularly
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and the disparities in risk communication …