By Edward Shore Dr. Peniel Joseph, an accomplished scholar, teacher, and a leading public voice on race in the United States, holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department at the University of Texas-Austin. This past January, Dr. Joseph inaugurated the Center for the Study of Race […]
The Black Male Education Research Collection
By Edward Shore African American males contend with a number of institutional barriers to success in school. These challenges include disproportionate dropout rates, high rates of expulsion and suspension, and limited access to special education programs. African American women encounter similar obstacles. Yet a recent Journal of Blacks in Higher Education study revealed a worsening […]
East Avenue
Before Interstate Highway 35 divided Austin, East Avenue was the line that separated white and non-white Austin. Whites lived west of the East Avenue and African Americans and Mexican Americans occupied the area to the east. But before that, before the 1930s, black Austinites resided in enclaves throughout the city, says Eric Tang, Associate Professor of […]