A A Akom
Biographic Data
| ID | 91454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A A Akom |
| GIVEN NAMES | A A |
| FAMILY NAME | Akom |
| SIGNATURE | AKOM A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis
This article uses Paulo Freire's problem-posing method, youth participatory action research, and case study methodology to introduce an alternative instructional strategy called Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy (CHHP). This approach attempts to address deep-rooted ideologies to social inequities by creating a space in teacher education courses for prospective teachers to re-examine their knowledge of hip hop as it intersects with race, class, gender, an…
Ameritocracy and infra‐racial racism
This article argues that narratives forecasting spectacular mobility for Black people/people of color along with the growth of the Black middle class function as proof that America ‘works’ and that the American dream is obtainable for all. However, what is concealed within this ‘meritocratic’ discourse is that full acceptance into this society is restricted on the basis of racial identity and other forms of social difference. I term the illusion …
Black Metropolis and Mental Life
In this article, I reflect on Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu's classic research on the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” to develop a long overdue dialogue between Africana studies and critical white studies. It highlights the dialectical nature of Fordham and Ogbu's philosophy of race and critical race theory by locating the origins of the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, who provides some of the intellectual foundations for…
Free spaces
This article introduces the concept of ‘free spaces’ as an important site for the development of theory and practice around youth activism, teacher development, and the transformation of public and private space in urban schools and communities. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Evans and Boyte (1986 Evans, S. and Boyte, H. C. 1986. Free spaces: the sources of democratic change in America, New York: Harper & Row. [Google Scholar]) introduced the…
Cities as battlefields
This article challenges social (dis)organization theory by investigating the impact of religious culture on civic engagement. Using qualitative data 1 1. The ethnographic data used in this article were collected through youth participatory action research (YPAR) a critical tool for social change, in which ‘difference’ and power relations are key lines of analysis (Lykes & Coquillon, 2006 Lykes, M. B. and Coquillon, E. 2006. “Participatory and act…
Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior
Influential work on oppositional culture explains involuntary minorities' disadvantage as the result of a culture that discourages academic effort by branding it as acting white, which leads students to resist schooling. Much of this work depicts involuntary minority cultures as internally uniform. This article challenges the oppositional-culture explanation in three important ways: (1) by demonstrating that through the religious tenets and pract…
Development strategies for the slums of Lagos
Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior
Influential work on oppositional culture explains involuntary minorities' disadvantage as the result of a culture that discourages academic effort by branding it as acting white, which leads students to resist schooling. Much of this work depicts involuntary minority cultures as internally uniform. This article challenges the oppositional-culture explanation in three important ways: (1) by demonstrating that through the religious tenets and pract…
Black Metropolis and Mental Life
In this article, I reflect on Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu's classic research on the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” to develop a long overdue dialogue between Africana studies and critical white studies. It highlights the dialectical nature of Fordham and Ogbu's philosophy of race and critical race theory by locating the origins of the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, who provides some of the intellectual foundations for…
Ameritocracy and infra‐racial racism
This article argues that narratives forecasting spectacular mobility for Black people/people of color along with the growth of the Black middle class function as proof that America ‘works’ and that the American dream is obtainable for all. However, what is concealed within this ‘meritocratic’ discourse is that full acceptance into this society is restricted on the basis of racial identity and other forms of social difference. I term the illusion …
Free spaces
This article introduces the concept of ‘free spaces’ as an important site for the development of theory and practice around youth activism, teacher development, and the transformation of public and private space in urban schools and communities. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Evans and Boyte (1986 Evans, S. and Boyte, H. C. 1986. Free spaces: the sources of democratic change in America, New York: Harper & Row. [Google Scholar]) introduced the…
Cities as battlefields
This article challenges social (dis)organization theory by investigating the impact of religious culture on civic engagement. Using qualitative data 1 1. The ethnographic data used in this article were collected through youth participatory action research (YPAR) a critical tool for social change, in which ‘difference’ and power relations are key lines of analysis (Lykes & Coquillon, 2006 Lykes, M. B. and Coquillon, E. 2006. “Participatory and act…
Development strategies for the slums of Lagos
Development strategies for the slums of Lagos
Reexamining Resistance as Oppositional Behavior
Influential work on oppositional culture explains involuntary minorities' disadvantage as the result of a culture that discourages academic effort by branding it as acting white, which leads students to resist schooling. Much of this work depicts involuntary minority cultures as internally uniform. This article challenges the oppositional-culture explanation in three important ways: (1) by demonstrating that through the religious tenets and pract…
Free spaces
This article introduces the concept of ‘free spaces’ as an important site for the development of theory and practice around youth activism, teacher development, and the transformation of public and private space in urban schools and communities. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Evans and Boyte (1986 Evans, S. and Boyte, H. C. 1986. Free spaces: the sources of democratic change in America, New York: Harper & Row. [Google Scholar]) introduced the…
Cities as battlefields
This article challenges social (dis)organization theory by investigating the impact of religious culture on civic engagement. Using qualitative data 1 1. The ethnographic data used in this article were collected through youth participatory action research (YPAR) a critical tool for social change, in which ‘difference’ and power relations are key lines of analysis (Lykes & Coquillon, 2006 Lykes, M. B. and Coquillon, E. 2006. “Participatory and act…
Ameritocracy and infra‐racial racism
This article argues that narratives forecasting spectacular mobility for Black people/people of color along with the growth of the Black middle class function as proof that America ‘works’ and that the American dream is obtainable for all. However, what is concealed within this ‘meritocratic’ discourse is that full acceptance into this society is restricted on the basis of racial identity and other forms of social difference. I term the illusion …
Black Metropolis and Mental Life
In this article, I reflect on Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu's classic research on the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” to develop a long overdue dialogue between Africana studies and critical white studies. It highlights the dialectical nature of Fordham and Ogbu's philosophy of race and critical race theory by locating the origins of the “burden of ‘acting White’ ” in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, who provides some of the intellectual foundations for…
Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis
This article uses Paulo Freire's problem-posing method, youth participatory action research, and case study methodology to introduce an alternative instructional strategy called Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy (CHHP). This approach attempts to address deep-rooted ideologies to social inequities by creating a space in teacher education courses for prospective teachers to re-examine their knowledge of hip hop as it intersects with race, class, gender, an…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Racism (4 works) · Critical race theory (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Ideology (3 works)