Kevin Michael Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 81966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Michael Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Institutional Groundings for Transformative Work with Students and in Schools
Despite local, state and federal funding for compulsory education, educational opportunity is not evenly distributed in the United States. A range of challenges disproportionately face students of color and the poor and lead to uneven achievement outcomes. This essay uses the example of a specific universitybased institute to show how partnerships between universities, schools and communities can improve the likelihood of academic success among m…
Dreaming in Context: Micro- and Structural Transformations in an Age of Standardized Testing
Consider academics who are committed to learning, teaching, and ongoing interaction with communities beyond the university, and who are simultaneously not satisfied with the learning opportunities for children in their community schools. What roles might they play in their local community? One answer, made compelling by contemporary models in practice, involves institution building—specifically, the co-construction and operation of critically eng…
Through the Perfect Storm: Contextual Responses, Structural Solutions, and the Challenges of Black Education
This article discusses the range of challenges faced by African American students today and argues against “silver bullet” solutions in addressing them. Academic success will not be achieved by imposing narrowly conceived remedies to interconnected factors such as teacher preparation, student engagement, school financing, or parent support. Sustained, community-wide Black academic excellence requires contextual responses to these areas, along wit…
Careful What You Ask For: Tales of Parent Involvement in Schools
As a matter of rhetoric, teachers, campus leaders and district administrators in the United States often clamor for greater parent involvement in public schools. However, among parents who heed the calls and "get involved," some quickly learn that the desire is not for their collaboration or input, but rather for them to fit into prescribed roles set out for them by school officials. Others successfully exercise power and influence based upon rac…
Documenting Tragedy and Resilience: The Importance of Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke
Spike Lee's documentary, When the Levees Broke, provides an informative, enduring, and alternative presentation surrounding the human and man-made debacle associated with Hurricane Katrina. Levees centers the voices of survivors and others involved in the weeks during and after the hurricane, historicizes residents' understandings and reactions, and grounds the entire film in powerful images and footage captured by countless people during the pro…
Black Greeks and Underground Pledging: Public Debates and Communal Concerns
Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) have long played an important role in collegiate black student life. The communal impact of the social events they plan and the cultural practices they engage is substantial, but yet to receive substantial scholarly attention. This article addresses the communal impact of “underground pledging,” which is the controversial practice of initiating prospective members through secret and forbidden ritual practi…
Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours: The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities
Following Hurricane Katrina, thousands of schoolchildren have been scattered across the country and required to work through a wide range of trauma as they simultaneously adjust to new schools, communities, and cultures. Their reception in new schools has been varied, ranging from pity, to support and inclusion, to vilification. It has included the work of wonderfully dynamic teachers who have adapted to challenging new classroom circumstances, t…
Association for Black Anthropologists
Council on Anthropology and Education
Austin Shelter Notes
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Diet of disparagement: The racial experiences of black students in a predominantly white university
As an unintended consequence of the Civil Rights Movement and the integrationist vocabulary that it engendered, otherwise progressive thinkers have been unable to describe the adverse impact of actions, attitudes and policies that are not necessarily intended as racist, but function that way nonetheless. Because racism has come to be popularly understood as the product of individual irrationality—aberrant behavior that society abhors—supposedly r…
Narratives of the social scientist: Understanding the work of John Ogbu
This article contextualizes the work of the late educational anthropologist John Ogbu in terms of uniquely American narratives that have explanatory and motivational value for different segments of the US population. The narrative Ogbu championed has explanatory value among several educational researchers, and is consistent with an ethnic immigrant narrative that has long held motivational value among African, Asian and European immigrant student…
John Uzo Ogbu (1939–2003)
Of the many wonderful scholars who have conducted educational research, how many have produced grand assessments that have remained relevant and worthy of discussion thirty years after their initia
Gods or Vermin: Alternative Readings of the African American Experience among African and African American College Students
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Diet of disparagement: The racial experiences of black students in a predominantly white university
As an unintended consequence of the Civil Rights Movement and the integrationist vocabulary that it engendered, otherwise progressive thinkers have been unable to describe the adverse impact of actions, attitudes and policies that are not necessarily intended as racist, but function that way nonetheless. Because racism has come to be popularly understood as the product of individual irrationality—aberrant behavior that society abhors—supposedly r…
Panopticonics: The Control and Surveillance of Black Female Athletes in a Collegiate Athletic Program
This article analyzes black female student athletes' participation in an elite collegiate athletic program and shows how the program maximizes black female participants' athletic and academic potential through surveillance, control, and discipline. The program instills in black female athletes a model of womanhood whereby they come to expect and achieve academic and athletic success, but does so at the expense of their autonomy and freedom from s…
The Contours of Community: The formation and maintenance of a black student community on a predominantly white campus
On predominantly white university campuses across the USA, the existence of black student communities is an unquestioned reality. Participants routinely self-identify as members, and university administrators acknowledge such communities' existence, along with that of other subcommunities, as a normal aspect of campus life. The common-sense assumption of subcommunities as an a priori component of student life provides a tempting but problematic s…
Coming to terms: A discussion of John Ogbu’s cultural‐ecological theory of minority academic achievement
Over the course of 30 years of academic work, the late educational anthropologist John Ogbu had an enormous influence on educational research, and on educational anthropology in particular. In this paper, I lay out the tenets of his cultural‐ecological (CE) theory of minority student responses to schooling. I also offer critical commentary and point out ways in which CE theory can be sharpened to facilitate increasingly nuanced and accurate analy…
Narratives of the social scientist: Understanding the work of John Ogbu
This article contextualizes the work of the late educational anthropologist John Ogbu in terms of uniquely American narratives that have explanatory and motivational value for different segments of the US population. The narrative Ogbu championed has explanatory value among several educational researchers, and is consistent with an ethnic immigrant narrative that has long held motivational value among African, Asian and European immigrant student…
Vindicationist Politics: A Foundation and Point of Departure for an African Diaspora Studies Program
Gods or Vermin: Alternative Readings of the African American Experience among African and African American College Students
Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours: The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities
Following Hurricane Katrina, thousands of schoolchildren have been scattered across the country and required to work through a wide range of trauma as they simultaneously adjust to new schools, communities, and cultures. Their reception in new schools has been varied, ranging from pity, to support and inclusion, to vilification. It has included the work of wonderfully dynamic teachers who have adapted to challenging new classroom circumstances, t…
Vindicationist Politics: A Foundation and Point of Departure for an African Diaspora Studies Program
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Council on Anthropology and Education
The Contours of Community: The formation and maintenance of a black student community on a predominantly white campus
On predominantly white university campuses across the USA, the existence of black student communities is an unquestioned reality. Participants routinely self-identify as members, and university administrators acknowledge such communities' existence, along with that of other subcommunities, as a normal aspect of campus life. The common-sense assumption of subcommunities as an a priori component of student life provides a tempting but problematic s…
Council on Anthropology and Education: CAE Events at AAA 2003 (Round 2)
Council on Anthropology and Education: Remembering John Ogbu
Council on Anthropology and Education: Announcements
Anthropology NewsVolume 44, Issue 2 p. 40-41 Council on Anthropology and Education Announcements Kevin Michael Foster, Kevin Michael Foster Contributing EditorSearch for more papers by this author Kevin Michael Foster, Kevin Michael Foster Contributing EditorSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 July 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.2003.44.2.40.7AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give access…
Council on Anthropology and Education: Call for Proposals
Council on Anthropology and Education: A Catholic School in Ecuador
Council on Anthropology and Education: Open Forum
Council on Anthropology and Education: Life After Graduate School
Panopticonics: The Control and Surveillance of Black Female Athletes in a Collegiate Athletic Program
This article analyzes black female student athletes' participation in an elite collegiate athletic program and shows how the program maximizes black female participants' athletic and academic potential through surveillance, control, and discipline. The program instills in black female athletes a model of womanhood whereby they come to expect and achieve academic and athletic success, but does so at the expense of their autonomy and freedom from s…
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Council on Anthropology and Education
Coming to terms: A discussion of John Ogbu’s cultural‐ecological theory of minority academic achievement
Over the course of 30 years of academic work, the late educational anthropologist John Ogbu had an enormous influence on educational research, and on educational anthropology in particular. In this paper, I lay out the tenets of his cultural‐ecological (CE) theory of minority student responses to schooling. I also offer critical commentary and point out ways in which CE theory can be sharpened to facilitate increasingly nuanced and accurate analy…
Council on Anthropology and Education: Faculty-Student Research in Cambodia
Council on Anthropology and Education: CAE at AAA (Round 1)
Council on Anthropology and Education: Education Research Funding
Council on Anthropology and Education: Henry Trueba
Council on Anthropology and Education: CAE at AAA (Round 2)
Council on Anthropology and Education: Anthropology as a Tool in Education
The Value of Program Building
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