OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Black Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural War: The Critical Need for African Centered Education	12
The Women of Operation Breadbasket: A Lost Chapter in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement	12
Not Keeping Up the Façade: Conceptualizing and (Re)Negotiating Masculinities Among Black Men Collegians	10
Re-Conceptualizing Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protests and His Banishment From the NFL as an Infringement on His “Right to Work”	10
Recognition and Recognizability in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined	10
The Impact of Colorism on Criminal Justice System Outcomes: A Scoping Study	9
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	8
The Cultural Politics of Natural Hair: Digital Mobilization and the Making of the CROWN Act Movement	8
Beyond Good Hair : An Act of Resistance to Symbolic Annihilation	8
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	7
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	6
“The Most Livable City in America”? Reparations Model Implementation, Progressive Mindsets, and Post-Racialism in Evanston, Illinois	6
Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shape Who is Human and Who is Not	6
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	6
“It’s Not a System of Care”: Black Youth’s Stories of Family Separation and Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	5
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	5
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	5
“Even in Poverty, We’re Still Dancing”: Helpful Coping Strategies in Response to Anti-Black Racism and Its Impact on Well-Being	5
Caribana and Carnival: Belonging as Resistance and Remembrance	5
Sanctified Stages: Kendrick Lamar, Black Church Symbolism, and Public Theology at Super Bowl LIX	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
Book Review: Deadpan: The aesthetics of Black inexpression PostT. (2022). Deadpan: The aesthetics of Black inexpression. New York: New York University Press, 272 pp. $ 32 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-4798	4
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	3
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3

Book Review: How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing Based on: WinstonC. (2023). How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing. Duke University	3
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa: Vanhucracy as an Afrocentric Model for Politics	3
Book Review: Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship WilliamsD. (2025). Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship. Amistad. 386 pp. $14.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-006301	3
The Use of Cyberbonding Play to Navigate Antiblack Racism at a Hispanic-Serving Institution	3
“Your Blackness Is Your Own Thing”: Examining Peer-Based Campus Racial-Ethnic Socialization Within Black Spaces	2
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza : Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	2
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	2
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	2
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	2
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	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
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	2
The Vicarious Intersectional Trauma (VIT) Conceptual Model: A Framework for Studying the Health-Related Impact of Exposure to Intersectional Violence on Social-Media	2
Insurgent Words, Poetic Diplomacy: Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Literacy as Liberation	2