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Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

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Black Student Leaders’ Race-Conscious Engagement: Contextualizing Racial Ideology In The Current Era Of Resistance, Veronica A. Jones Oct 2018

Black Student Leaders’ Race-Conscious Engagement: Contextualizing Racial Ideology In The Current Era Of Resistance, Veronica A. Jones

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

Black youth of the current generation are creating new definitions of engagement that vary from the nostalgic reverence to the activism of Black student leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Because today’s student leaders are engaged in navigating predominantly White institution (PWI) norms, this research sought to contextualize the racial attitudes of Black student leaders through race-conscious engagement. While some Black students may not function under an activist label, they are nevertheless committed to social change and realize their involvement through a salient Black identity. Racial ideology survey items from the multidimensional inventory of Black identity (MIBI) which operationalizes the …


Black Student Leaders’ Race-Conscious Engagement: Contextualizing Racial Ideology In The Current Era Of Resistance, Veronica A. Jones Nov 2017

Black Student Leaders’ Race-Conscious Engagement: Contextualizing Racial Ideology In The Current Era Of Resistance, Veronica A. Jones

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

Black youth of the current generation are creating new definitions of engagement that vary from the nostalgic reverence to the activism of Black student leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Because today’s student leaders are engaged in navigating predominantly White institution (PWI) norms, this research sought to contextualize the racial attitudes of Black student leaders through race-conscious engagement. While some Black students may not function under an activist label, they are nevertheless committed to social change and realize their involvement through a salient Black identity. Racial ideology survey items from the multidimensional inventory of Black identity (MIBI) which operationalizes the …


In Defense Of Hashtag Activism, Jenn Fang Jul 2016

In Defense Of Hashtag Activism, Jenn Fang

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

The Final Word is an adapted rewriting of In Defense of Hashtag Activism published in April 2016 at http://reappropriate.co/2016/04/in-defense-of-hashtag-activism/


What Does It Mean For Us To Move Forward: Combatting Marginality And Institutional Racism, Karyn Dyer Feb 2016

What Does It Mean For Us To Move Forward: Combatting Marginality And Institutional Racism, Karyn Dyer

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

Students' Critical Reflections on Racial (in)justice


Student Activism: Fighting The Privilege To 'Forget', Melissa Charles Feb 2016

Student Activism: Fighting The Privilege To 'Forget', Melissa Charles

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

This piece describes my internal struggle to remain a black woman succeeding academically at a large public university while not forgetting the hundreds of black people being murdered on a daily basis.


Special Issue: Students' Critical Reflections On Racial (In)Justice Feb 2016

Special Issue: Students' Critical Reflections On Racial (In)Justice

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

This special issue was made possible by the generous, critical, timely, and powerful contributions submitted by undergraduate and graduate students reflecting on the state of racial justice/injustice as they see it.