B Thelamour
Biographic Data
| ID | 69650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Thelamour |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Thelamour |
| SIGNATURE | THELAMOUR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5601-8558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Your Blackness Is Your Own Thing”: Examining Peer-Based Campus Racial-Ethnic Socialization Within Black Spaces
Studies in higher education have shown cultural student groups to be critical spaces for college students’ ongoing learning and development. Guided by research on Black spaces, this qualitative case study examined campus racial socialization, or the ways information about membership in the Black race is transmitted in educational settings, occurs within Black student groups at a small liberal arts college. We also foreground the ethnic diversity …
U.S. Immigrants' Multicultural Identities: Implications of Immigration Policy, State Immigrant Concentration, and Public Perceptions
U.S. immigrant‐origin emerging adults must negotiate their cultural identities—ethnic (EI) and American national identities—as part of acculturation to ensure optimal adaptation in the receiving context. Contextual factors, like immigration policy, state immigrant concentration, and public perceptions of immigrants, may affect identity negotiation. Person‐centred approaches show that immigrants have varying approaches to negotiating their cultura…
I Just Broke Down: Critical Care and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Multilingual Schools
Drawing on nearly a decade of qualitative data collection and educator engagement at an immigrant-serving high school in Philadelphia, this essay explores the intersections of critical multilingual pedagogy with secondary traumatic stress (STS). STS is a mental health condition impacting professionals who work closely with trauma-impacted individuals, which can adversely impact their job satisfaction and career trajectories. Weaving teacher accou…
Streaming Black girlhood: Biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties
The era of streaming services and online distribution of independent films have offered more varied representations of the African Diaspora than were previously available through traditional media. Within this context, Maïmouna Doucouré's acclaimed 2020 film, Cuties, presents a poignant and nuanced, yet controversial representation of Black immigrant biculturality, girlhood, and puberty. In this essay, we engage with Cuties through the lens of no…
Black Immigrant Racial Identity Scholarship in the United States: A Conceptual Examination
First- and second-generation Black immigrants are a growing population, comprising a significant portion of the Black people living in the United States, but are an under researched group. Racial identity is one framework that may be used to examine their identity-making in the context of racial oppression. This conceptual paper examines the research literature on Black immigrant racial identity to determine what we have learned about racial iden…
Caribbean Immigrant Youths' Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement: The Role of Academic Beliefs
Ethnic identity (EI) can facilitate racially and ethnically marginalized youths' academic achievement but the mediating process by which it exerts its influence is unclear. This study examines how EI is associated with academic achievement through academic beliefs in a sample of Caribbean first and second generation immigrant adolescents whose identities are connected to cultural groups outside of the U.S. Youth ( N = 128; 12-18 years old, M = 16…
I disagreed with a lot of values: Exploring Black immigrant agency in ethnic-racial socialization
Our college degree: Familial engagement in the lives of diverse Black collegians
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of family in the educational success of diverse Black college students. We offer a more nuanced examination of how Black families influence academic achievement and college going by disaggregating Black college student data by nativity and immigrant generation. Our findings demonstrate how Black families’ focus on race and nationality pride as well as the use of familial motivation to prepare Blac…
We need to stick together for survival”: Black college students’ racial identity, same-ethnic friendships, and campus connectedness
"Black Elephant in the Room": Black Students Contextualizing Campus Racial Climate Within US Racial Climate
The systemic racism in U.S. society being resisted through larger movements such as Black Lives Matter is also reflected and reproduced in U.S. higher education. This qualitative study examines how Black students contextualize their campus racial climate within broader race issues, tensions, and movements occurring across the nation. Findings reveal four themes: (1) Perceptions of Blackness on campus; (2) Campus racial climate mirroring societal …
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Applying the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to Examine Black Americans' Perspectives on African Immigrant Acculturation
This study used the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to capture Black Americans' ( N = 173) perceptions of and preferences for African immigrant acculturation to the Black American host culture in seven life domains (i.e., social relationships, values, spending, family dynamic, group educational concern, race relations, and political engagement). Participants also had the opportunity to provide qualitative statements to elaborate on their su…
Homework Practices of English and Non-English–Speaking Parents
This study compared the homework practices of English-speaking and non-English–speaking parents. Using a national data set of 7,992 students across ages and ethnicities, the frequency and type of homework practices were investigated. Statistical analysis revealed significant (though small) differences between the overall homework practices between the groups of parents. There were also differences between the types of homework strategies parents …
We need to stick together for survival”: Black college students’ racial identity, same-ethnic friendships, and campus connectedness
I disagreed with a lot of values: Exploring Black immigrant agency in ethnic-racial socialization
Applying the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to Examine Black Americans' Perspectives on African Immigrant Acculturation
This study used the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to capture Black Americans' ( N = 173) perceptions of and preferences for African immigrant acculturation to the Black American host culture in seven life domains (i.e., social relationships, values, spending, family dynamic, group educational concern, race relations, and political engagement). Participants also had the opportunity to provide qualitative statements to elaborate on their su…
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Our college degree: Familial engagement in the lives of diverse Black collegians
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of family in the educational success of diverse Black college students. We offer a more nuanced examination of how Black families influence academic achievement and college going by disaggregating Black college student data by nativity and immigrant generation. Our findings demonstrate how Black families’ focus on race and nationality pride as well as the use of familial motivation to prepare Blac…
Homework Practices of English and Non-English–Speaking Parents
This study compared the homework practices of English-speaking and non-English–speaking parents. Using a national data set of 7,992 students across ages and ethnicities, the frequency and type of homework practices were investigated. Statistical analysis revealed significant (though small) differences between the overall homework practices between the groups of parents. There were also differences between the types of homework strategies parents …
Homework Practices of English and Non-English–Speaking Parents
This study compared the homework practices of English-speaking and non-English–speaking parents. Using a national data set of 7,992 students across ages and ethnicities, the frequency and type of homework practices were investigated. Statistical analysis revealed significant (though small) differences between the overall homework practices between the groups of parents. There were also differences between the types of homework strategies parents …
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Applying the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to Examine Black Americans' Perspectives on African Immigrant Acculturation
This study used the Relative Acculturation Extended Model to capture Black Americans' ( N = 173) perceptions of and preferences for African immigrant acculturation to the Black American host culture in seven life domains (i.e., social relationships, values, spending, family dynamic, group educational concern, race relations, and political engagement). Participants also had the opportunity to provide qualitative statements to elaborate on their su…
"Black Elephant in the Room": Black Students Contextualizing Campus Racial Climate Within US Racial Climate
The systemic racism in U.S. society being resisted through larger movements such as Black Lives Matter is also reflected and reproduced in U.S. higher education. This qualitative study examines how Black students contextualize their campus racial climate within broader race issues, tensions, and movements occurring across the nation. Findings reveal four themes: (1) Perceptions of Blackness on campus; (2) Campus racial climate mirroring societal …
We need to stick together for survival”: Black college students’ racial identity, same-ethnic friendships, and campus connectedness
Our college degree: Familial engagement in the lives of diverse Black collegians
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of family in the educational success of diverse Black college students. We offer a more nuanced examination of how Black families influence academic achievement and college going by disaggregating Black college student data by nativity and immigrant generation. Our findings demonstrate how Black families’ focus on race and nationality pride as well as the use of familial motivation to prepare Blac…
I disagreed with a lot of values: Exploring Black immigrant agency in ethnic-racial socialization
Caribbean Immigrant Youths' Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement: The Role of Academic Beliefs
Ethnic identity (EI) can facilitate racially and ethnically marginalized youths' academic achievement but the mediating process by which it exerts its influence is unclear. This study examines how EI is associated with academic achievement through academic beliefs in a sample of Caribbean first and second generation immigrant adolescents whose identities are connected to cultural groups outside of the U.S. Youth ( N = 128; 12-18 years old, M = 16…
Streaming Black girlhood: Biculturality, nostalgia and hypervisibility in Cuties
The era of streaming services and online distribution of independent films have offered more varied representations of the African Diaspora than were previously available through traditional media. Within this context, Maïmouna Doucouré's acclaimed 2020 film, Cuties, presents a poignant and nuanced, yet controversial representation of Black immigrant biculturality, girlhood, and puberty. In this essay, we engage with Cuties through the lens of no…
Black Immigrant Racial Identity Scholarship in the United States: A Conceptual Examination
First- and second-generation Black immigrants are a growing population, comprising a significant portion of the Black people living in the United States, but are an under researched group. Racial identity is one framework that may be used to examine their identity-making in the context of racial oppression. This conceptual paper examines the research literature on Black immigrant racial identity to determine what we have learned about racial iden…
U.S. Immigrants' Multicultural Identities: Implications of Immigration Policy, State Immigrant Concentration, and Public Perceptions
U.S. immigrant‐origin emerging adults must negotiate their cultural identities—ethnic (EI) and American national identities—as part of acculturation to ensure optimal adaptation in the receiving context. Contextual factors, like immigration policy, state immigrant concentration, and public perceptions of immigrants, may affect identity negotiation. Person‐centred approaches show that immigrants have varying approaches to negotiating their cultura…
I Just Broke Down: Critical Care and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Multilingual Schools
Drawing on nearly a decade of qualitative data collection and educator engagement at an immigrant-serving high school in Philadelphia, this essay explores the intersections of critical multilingual pedagogy with secondary traumatic stress (STS). STS is a mental health condition impacting professionals who work closely with trauma-impacted individuals, which can adversely impact their job satisfaction and career trajectories. Weaving teacher accou…
Your Blackness Is Your Own Thing”: Examining Peer-Based Campus Racial-Ethnic Socialization Within Black Spaces
Studies in higher education have shown cultural student groups to be critical spaces for college students’ ongoing learning and development. Guided by research on Black spaces, this qualitative case study examined campus racial socialization, or the ways information about membership in the Black race is transmitted in educational settings, occurs within Black student groups at a small liberal arts college. We also foreground the ethnic diversity …
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (7 works) · Ethnic group (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)