Social Science Literature Concerning African American Men

Invisible Voices: Factors Associated with the Subjective Well-Being of Aging African American Men

“…Gordon, Gordon, & Nembhard (1994) contend that much of the literature that currently exists mostly focuses on the plight of the African American male and should focus on examining how this population copes with the challenges of their experience. This study also takes a rare look at African American males' subjective appraisals of their lives.…”

How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Black Male Students, Schools, and Learning in Enhancing the Knowledge Base to Disrupt Deficit Frameworks

“…E. T. Gordon et al (1994) called for scholars to move away from genetic and cultural explanation of Black male underachievement and to examine for structural explanations. Using the lens of institutional racism and discrimination, they suggested that drugs, crime, violence, inferior schooling, and economic instability provided more reliable insights into why Black males struggle to adapt in schools.…”

Urban African American Adolescents And School Identification

“…The detachment of a sense of value from school makes schooling less important to students' personal identity and their willingness to identify with the traditional role of school. Among African American students, the propensity toward disidentification is greater among males (Osborne, 1997), a group also identified as most at-risk within the student population for school failure (Gordon, Gordon, & Nembhard, 1995). This is a particularly poignant finding in light of discrepancies in school achievement among African American adolescents across gender.…”