Throughout history, Black men have been subjected to numerous minority stressors, social injustices, racism, police brutality, discrimination, and other traumatic incidents. Though research has examined young Black men’s mental health and sexual behavior, no study has looked spe…
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African American men who have sex with men (AAMSM) are at an increased risk for HIV infection when compared to White and Hispanic MSM. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions, opinions, feelings and experiences of a selected sample of AAMSM and their perception …
Black and Latino men are attending college at rates that are greater than ever before. However, success for these students, as measured by graduation rates, has not increased with greater access. Black and Latino men face greater barriers to their success than do White and Asian…
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of incarceration on Black males’ mental health and coping skills. Transactional stress coping theory investigates stress as a by-product caused between a person and their environment and Afrocentric theory was used as the lens t…
Negative perceptions of Black boys and men have persisted and have been analyzed through numerous studies over the years, showcasing both educator’s low gendered schooling expectations of them and their racial trauma and stress they experience attending PWIs if they are able to …
The role of Black fathers in the public imagination has historically been framed from a deficit or deviance perspective (Johnson & Young, 2016). In addition to dominant perceptions of absence, Black men have also been historically positioned as detrimental actors within family a…
This phenomenological study was an exploration of how Black men described their faith and spiritual lived experiences as influences toward their desistance, cognitive transformations, identity shifts, and redemptive narratives in a Mid-Atlantic U.S. city. Four research questions…
This thesis explores the service of an estimated 468 black men who fought for the American cause during the Revolutionary War. Specifically, it examines those who resided in North Carolina or fought under the forces of this state. While the war largely did not fulfill its egalit…
He Persisted! is a compilation study about eight Black men who graduated from high school in the Jackson, Mississippi Metropolitan Area after Mississippi began mandatory integration in 1970. All but one of the men graduated during the first iteration of the Elementary and Second…
The world has a major influence on how people should live their life and what rules the people on the world should abide by. The Church has that same influence on their congregation. The specific problem is that black gay and bisexual adult males have endured abuse, violence, di…
Historically, Black men have been found to perpetrate IPV at higher rates in comparison to other ethnic groups; however, studies of IPV perpetration have largely focused on samples of White individuals. There is a paucity of empirical research related to the interrelationships a…
This project examines the ways in which Black men in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora define themselves as gendered beings in their fiction and drama beginning with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Blac…
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can result in consequences that are devastating and long lasting. Differences in the nature of CSA for males and females potentially influence recovery and the role of moderating factors, such as spirituality. Studies of recovery from CSA, especially…
Black men in America have a long-standing, strained relationship with authority in this country. History has shown time and again that racism has allowed authority figures to abuse their power and for some this subjugation causes Black men to be resistant to authority all togeth…
This study examined how high achieving Black male students effectively navigated the interconnected system of primary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the United States to become academically resilient. The author of this thesis conducted comparative qual…