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Title: Believing in Black Students

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Publication Year: 2019

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DOI: 10.1163/9789004397040_018

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Abstract: Michelle Obama said this during a graduation speech for Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School in Nashville, Tennessee (Saenz, 2013). Obama used sev,eral examples of people, including her husband President B,arack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, to illustrate that triumph is a natural byproduct of adversity. Many Black students persist in an environment that often feels unwelcoming. Studies show that Black students are more likely to attend schools in a high secwity environment and less likely to perceive care and respect from their te.achers (Toldson, 2008). In addition, most Black high school graduates have had to adapt to a racially biased curriculum that undermines their culture contribution to any field. Within this context, educators have a unique opportunity to impart wisdom and inspire posts,econdary success among Black students, by reaffirming Black culture and helping Black students create a personal narrative of success. Unfortunately, many educators and advocates use BS to denigrate and dispirit Black students through a mind-numbing recital of poorly sourced statistics, which imply that, for example, Black students hav,e a better chance of going to prison than to college and have a corrupt value system that attributes being smart to "acting White." These typ,es of condemnations elicit a variety of emotions from students, ranging from boredom to unease...

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Authors: Toldson, Ivory A.

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Pages: 173–178

Volume Title: No BS (Bad Stats)

Publisher: Brill | Sense

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States