What Does Africa Have to Do with Being African American? A Microethnographic Analysis of a Middle School Inquiry Unit on Africa

Jerome E. Morris

doi:10.1525/aeq.2003.34.3.255

What Does Africa Have to Do with Being African American? A Microethnographic Analysis of a Middle School Inquiry Unit on Africa

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Examines how the unfolding events in one classroom lesson brought to the fore the extent to which schools and educators explicitly draw connections between the social and historical relationship of African Americans and foreign-born blacks. A personal accounting of journeys to Africa captures how the author arrived at using a sociopolitical lens to examine the multifaceted nature of black identity in U.S. schools. (SM)

Original language	American English
Journal	Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/aeq.2003.34.3.255
State	Published - Jan 9 2003
Externally published	Yes

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Anthropology
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sociology

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