OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Black Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Withdrawal Due to Administrative Error: Inadvertent Publication	16
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	14
Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study	10
Re-Conceptualizing Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protests and His Banishment From the NFL as an Infringement on His “Right to Work”	10
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	8
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	8
“It’s Not a System of Care”: Black Youth’s Stories of Family Separation and Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	8
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	7
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	6
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	6
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	5
“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit	4
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage	4
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics	4
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	4
“I am an African”: A Philosophical Enquiry of Identity and Culture	4
Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline	3
“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	3
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3
“Where I Can Breathe”: Examining the Impact of the Current Racial Climate on Black Students’ Choice to Attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities	3
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	3
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	2
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	2

Preventive Epidemiology of PrEP Use in African American Women With a Perceived HIV Risk	2
Race, Gender, and Perceived Employment Discrimination	2
American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	2
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
“Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown”: A Critical Race Analysis of the CROWN Act	2
Soldier and Scholar: Abdias Nascimento and the Origins of Afro-Latin American Studies	2
Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time	2
Decolonizing Cultural Probes in Ethnographic Research: Perspective of African Scholars	2
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	1
Book Review: Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology	1
Immersing Undergraduate Students in Diasporic Experiences: Black Studies, Study Away, and Afro-Puerto Rico	1
“We Out Here”: Black Women, Well-Being, and #blackgirlsrun on Instagram	1
Youth Invasion: The Dramatic Surge in Drug Abuse and Criminal Behaviors in Southwest Nigeria	1
When We Know Better, We Do Better: Educators’ Storied Reflections on Black Teacher Attrition and Retention	1
Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts	1
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	1
FRAMING A BLACK PACIFIC ETHNOSPHERE: Beyoncé and Indigenous Māori Dance Evolution in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	1
The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun	1
RAGE!, Retaliation, and Retribution: Recurring Themes in August Wilson’s Work	1
The Roles of Riddles, Puzzles, and Narratives as Pedagogy in Video Games: A Case of African-Themed Video Games	1
African American Redemption in the Pan-African Metropolis: Africanized Identities, Pan-African Lives and the African World Festival in Detroit	1
Exploring Parental Identities: How Single Black Males Understand Fatherhood in the Absence of Their Fathers	1
Fanonian Art Practices: Toward A Decolonial Grammar of Being	1
Book Review: The History of Black Studies	1
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa: The Role of Indigenous Cultural Norms and Values	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	1
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	1
The Vicarious Intersectional Trauma (VIT) Conceptual Model: A Framework for Studying the Health-Related Impact of Exposure to Intersectional Violence on Social-Media	1
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	1
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	1
Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988	1
Symbolic Annihilation: Analyzing Associated Press’s Erasure of Vanessa Nakate and Marginalization of Black Women Activists	1
Book Review: Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife	1
Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop	1
Land and Identity in Afrikan Tradition: The Origins of the Ancestral Land Complex	1
Hussle and Motivate: An Afrocentric Understanding of Constitutive Rhetoric Toward Economic Empowerment in Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap Album	1
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	1
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	1
The Suppression and Liberation of Malcolm’s Personal Agency: Malcolm X and His Religio-Racial Understanding of White People	0
You Are What You Eat: Affirming Podcast and Subjective Wellbeing among African American Women	0
Agency Reduction Formation: The Origin and Development of a Practical Theory	0
The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Students Attending a HBCU	0
Becoming an Africana Activist Scholar: David C. Turner, III and Black Graduate Student Activism as Professional Development, A Case Study	0
Book Review: Dear Science and Other Stories	0
Book Review: Review of Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom	0
Negotiating Blackness, and Culture in Brazilian Metal Scene	0
Black Woman Victimhood: An Intersectional Analysis of Meg Thee Stallion’s Testimony	0

Book Review: Rethinking Reparations	0
Jump Nyabinghi: Black Radical Militancy, Rastafarianism, and Jamaican Cultural Influence on Black America	0
Nnamdi Azikiwe Center: Historicizing the Immortalization of Zik’s Lodge in Nigeria—the Journey, the Project, and Tourism Potentials	0
Relevant Leadership for Black Children: Calling All Black Public School Principal Supervisors	0
Toward a Socially Oriented Agricultural Model for Africa’s Renaissance	0
Not Staying in Their Place: An Historic Analysis of Mechanisms of Controlling Movement of Black Men in America through the Lenses of Social Identity and Gender	0
Sustainability Education for Ontological Re/Configuration: COVID-19 as a Pointer to the Ailing World Asili	0
Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, and the Organization of African Unity: Appealing to Shepherds on Behalf of Their Lost Sheep at the 1964 OAU Summit	0
Tornadic Black Angels: Vodou, Dance, Revolution	0
Black Fathers Matter: Messages of Hope in Black Father-Themed Instagram Memes	0
Black Bodies in America as the Metaphors for Oppression, Poverty, Violence, and Hate: Searching for Sustainable Solutions Beyond the Black-letter Law	0
“Godsplaining”: Toward a Theory of Religious Capital in Political Rhetoric	0
African-Centred Mediation in Zulu Marriages: Challenging Western Dominance in Family Law	0
Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemic Era	0
Retaining Family Identity: Lived Experience of Caregiving in the Black Community	0
“Skin Markings: Filtering COVID-19 Through Levitical and Black Lenses”	0
US Media, Selective Exposure, and the Promotion of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Black and Latino Communities	0
Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Life Expectancy in the American South	0
Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos	0
“My Anxiety Has Been Heightened”: Black Mothers’ Concerns Regarding Children’s Return to In-person Learning Following COVID-19-Related Remote Learning	0
Book Review: Caste: The Lies That Divide Us	0
HBCUs Matter: A Review of Behavioral Health at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	0
Decolonizing the Curriculum: Who Were the Ancient Europeans?	0
Transdisciplinary Africana Studies and Africana Poetical Science: A Conversation	0
Potential Contribution of African-American Migrants to Economic and Cultural Development in Africa	0
Black Campus Climate: Towards a Liberatory and Equitable Black Campus Experience	0
Under the Brutal Watch: A Historical Examination of Slave Patrols in the United States and Brazil During the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson	0
God is Life: A Sociolinguistic and Ethnopragmatic Conceptualization of Chi in Igbo Naming Practices	0
Dismantling Colonial Laughter: Tracing Emergent African Diaspora Stand-Up Comedy in French and German	0
White Philanthropy Won’t Save Black Education: Tracing an “Ordinary” Segregated School’s Life in Delaware	0
Fanon on the Arbitrariness of Using Violence: An Inevitable for Both Colonialism and Decolonization	0
Strong Black Women: Linking Stereotypes, Stress, and Overeating Among a Sample of Black Female College Students	0
“The Beat” of the Black Press: An Exploratory Analysis of Black Newspapers and Their Podcasts	0
Book Review: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine UchéBlackstock (2024). Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine. New York: Viking	0
Book Review: The Love Jones cohort: Single and living alone in the Black middle class	0
From Harlem to Africa—The New Negro Movement and the Trans-Atlantic Vision for Black Education and Liberation	0
Global Coloniality and Ecological Injustice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021)	0
Framing the Problematics of Choice and Legacy: A Reading of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson as a Dilemma Tale	0
Anti-Black Racism in the Ontario Public School System: Problematizing the Labeling of Young Black Students as Troublemakers	0
Mitigating rACEsm in K-12 Classrooms: The Consideration of Culturally-Informed Adverse Childhood Experiences and Utilization of Culturally Relevant Education and Systemically Trauma-Informed Practice	0
Agenda 2063 and the Feasibility of Sustainable Development in Africa: Any Silver Bullet?	0
Negotiating African American Language, Identity, and Culture in the Urban Classroom	0
Unmasking My Truth: Autoethnography of Psychological Stress as a Black Woman in the Academy	0
Book Review: Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class	0
Learning While Black: Racial and Educational Challenges of Black Students	0
Explaining Antithetical Movements to the Black Lives Matter Movement Based on Relative Deprivation Theory	0
Teaching Psychological Concepts Through a Hip-Hop Pedagogy	0
Book review: The world looks like this from here: Thoughts on African psychology	0
Race, Gender, and HIV Testing: A Nationwide Study of the Social Determinants of Black Male and Female Differences in HIV Testing	0
Technological Advocacy and Crime Reporting in an HBCU Setting: Addressing the Prospect of Legal Cynicism in the Ebony Tower	0
Black Psychology and Black Criminality: Myths and Reality on the Origins of Black Street Life	0
An Africological Excavation of Colonial Discourse	0
Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas	0
Strategies for Support: Black Women Faculty Career Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	0
The Converging Streams of Afrikan War and Resistance in the Afrikan World	0
Rage In (and Out) the Cage: Black Students’ Negotiation of Safety	0
Situating Dashed Prospects of Independence into the Xenophobic Narrative in South Africa	0
The (Re)construction of the Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade: Bimbia in Cameroon Between Silence, Rehabilitation, and Cultural Dialogue	0
Using a Phenomenological and Fanon Analytic: A Methodological Framework and Method for Research with Impoverished Black Male Youth	0
A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022	0
Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento	0
The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics	0
Editor-In-Chief’s Message	0
Retrofuturist Speculations: Race as Technology in Olaudah Equiano’s Vision of a Future	0
Return to the Source: Cabral, Fanon, the Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization/Revolutionary Re-Africanization, and the African Renaissance	0
Unequal Access: Healthcare Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening Among African Women	0
Book Review: Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature	0
Gendered Framing of Agribusiness Under USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative in Liberia: A Colonial Sequel?	0
Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies	0
#RealBleachers: Black Women’s Knowledge of Skin Whitening Risks	0
We Are STEM: Examining the Significance and Influence of Counterspaces in the Development of Black Girls’ STEM Identity	0
Book Review: Black cultural mythology	0
Doing the Work of God: HBCU’s and Black America’s Response to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918	0
The Dilemma of Global South’s Contributions to Critical Security Studies: The African Case	0
Returning at Any Cost? How Black College Students Feel Toward COVID Vaccines and Institutional Mandates	0
Toward a Critical Race Theorization of Cultural Capital for Black Education Studies Research	0