Sherell A Mcarthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 2962178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherell A Mcarthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherell A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcarthur |
| SIGNATURE | MCARTHUR S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1214-3274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pens Down, Don’t Shoot
Media culture is exploitative and damaging. It reinforces both racist and sexist stereotypes, which places Black young women’s unique racialized gender in a position to be overidentified in derogatory ways. The bodies of Black young women, as an example, are labeled with social stigmas that make them identifiable to society at large as deficient. Furthermore, their lives have been devalued and dehumanized in the public eye as their stories are of…
Building Black worlds
This article presents the reflections of the authors, two Black women teacher educators, in ongoing dialogue with Black teacher education students at a PWI. The dialogues generated from several gatherings in which students’ concerns and feedback about their teacher education experiences were solicited. Ultimately, students continued to request a space where they could be candid about their experiences. We contextualize these dialogues with Black …
Centering Student Identities in Critical Media Literacy Instruction
The authors featured in this department column share instructional practices that support transformative literacy teaching and disrupt “struggling reader” and “struggling writer” labels
Schoolin’ Black Girls
Black Muslim Girls Navigating Multiple Oppositional Binaries Through Literacy and Letter Writing
Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12–17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple contexts that inform their worlds. The girls received writing instruction connected to their experiences an…
Styled by Their Perceptions”
Identity formation is a critical process shaping the lives of adolescents and can present distinct challenges for Black adolescent girls who are positioned in society to negotiate ideals of self when presented with false and incomplete images representing Black girlhood. Researchers have found distorted images of Black femininity derived from history, including the mammy, jezebel, and Sapphire, are still pervasive in contemporary media outlets th…
Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop
Sherell A. McArthur, Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop: Parents as Mediators of African American Adolescent Consumption of Popular Culture, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 84, No. 3, Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success (Guest Editors: Nadine Finigan-Carr and Yolanda Abel) (Summer 2015), pp. 491-506
Black Muslim Girls Navigating Multiple Oppositional Binaries Through Literacy and Letter Writing
Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12–17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple contexts that inform their worlds. The girls received writing instruction connected to their experiences an…
Styled by Their Perceptions”
Identity formation is a critical process shaping the lives of adolescents and can present distinct challenges for Black adolescent girls who are positioned in society to negotiate ideals of self when presented with false and incomplete images representing Black girlhood. Researchers have found distorted images of Black femininity derived from history, including the mammy, jezebel, and Sapphire, are still pervasive in contemporary media outlets th…
Schoolin’ Black Girls
Pens Down, Don’t Shoot
Media culture is exploitative and damaging. It reinforces both racist and sexist stereotypes, which places Black young women’s unique racialized gender in a position to be overidentified in derogatory ways. The bodies of Black young women, as an example, are labeled with social stigmas that make them identifiable to society at large as deficient. Furthermore, their lives have been devalued and dehumanized in the public eye as their stories are of…
Building Black worlds
This article presents the reflections of the authors, two Black women teacher educators, in ongoing dialogue with Black teacher education students at a PWI. The dialogues generated from several gatherings in which students’ concerns and feedback about their teacher education experiences were solicited. Ultimately, students continued to request a space where they could be candid about their experiences. We contextualize these dialogues with Black …
Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop
Sherell A. McArthur, Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop: Parents as Mediators of African American Adolescent Consumption of Popular Culture, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 84, No. 3, Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success (Guest Editors: Nadine Finigan-Carr and Yolanda Abel) (Summer 2015), pp. 491-506
Styled by Their Perceptions”
Identity formation is a critical process shaping the lives of adolescents and can present distinct challenges for Black adolescent girls who are positioned in society to negotiate ideals of self when presented with false and incomplete images representing Black girlhood. Researchers have found distorted images of Black femininity derived from history, including the mammy, jezebel, and Sapphire, are still pervasive in contemporary media outlets th…
Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop
Sherell A. McArthur, Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop: Parents as Mediators of African American Adolescent Consumption of Popular Culture, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 84, No. 3, Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success (Guest Editors: Nadine Finigan-Carr and Yolanda Abel) (Summer 2015), pp. 491-506
Black Muslim Girls Navigating Multiple Oppositional Binaries Through Literacy and Letter Writing
Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12–17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple contexts that inform their worlds. The girls received writing instruction connected to their experiences an…
Centering Student Identities in Critical Media Literacy Instruction
The authors featured in this department column share instructional practices that support transformative literacy teaching and disrupt “struggling reader” and “struggling writer” labels
Schoolin’ Black Girls
Building Black worlds
This article presents the reflections of the authors, two Black women teacher educators, in ongoing dialogue with Black teacher education students at a PWI. The dialogues generated from several gatherings in which students’ concerns and feedback about their teacher education experiences were solicited. Ultimately, students continued to request a space where they could be candid about their experiences. We contextualize these dialogues with Black …
Pens Down, Don’t Shoot
Media culture is exploitative and damaging. It reinforces both racist and sexist stereotypes, which places Black young women’s unique racialized gender in a position to be overidentified in derogatory ways. The bodies of Black young women, as an example, are labeled with social stigmas that make them identifiable to society at large as deficient. Furthermore, their lives have been devalued and dehumanized in the public eye as their stories are of…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Empowerment (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works)