A new issue of the Journal of African American Males in Education is out. Martin P. Smith, Louis Harrison Jr., and Anthony L. Brown (Texas): The Misintegration of the Negro: A Historical Analysis of Black Male Habitus in Sport and Schooling. Quaylan Allen (Chapman): ‘‘I’m Trying to Get My A’’: Black Male Achievers Talk about Race, School and Achievement. Damon Tweedy on what it’s like to be a black man in medical school. Dead or in jail: Wilbert L. Cooper on the burden of being a black man in America. From Daily Nous, Christopher Lebron, Myisha Cherry, and Neil Roberts on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (and more and more and more).
From TPM, parenting while black: Carla Murphy interviews Toya Graham on violence, fear and Freddie Gray. Herstory: Treva Lindsey on a brief and painful history of state violence against black women and girls. Gregory Scott Parks (Wake Forest) and Caryn Neumann (Miami U): Lifting as They Climb: Race, Sorority, and African American Uplift in the 20th Century. Inside the world of the black elite: Jason Parham interviews Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland: A Memoir. Toni Lester (Babson): Oprah, Beyonce, and the Girls Who “Run the World”: Are Black Female Cultural Producers Gaining Ground in Intellectual Property Law? Obama honors “foot soldiers” in civil rights movement — black women.
