OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Black Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Suicide among Black Children: An Integrated Model of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide and Intersectionality Theory for Researchers and Clinicians	70
“The Only Thing New is the Cameras”: A Study of U.S. College Students’ Perceptions of Police Violence on Social Media	42
The Framing of Race: Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter Movement	27
Black Death and Mourning as Pandemic	23
“I’m Supposed To Be Thick”: Managing Body Image Anxieties Among Black American Women	21
African Indigenous Leadership Philosophy and Democratic Governance System: Gada’s Intersectionality with Ubuntu	11
“Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown”: A Critical Race Analysis of the CROWN Act	8
Agenda 2063 and the Feasibility of Sustainable Development in Africa: Any Silver Bullet?	7
Derek Chauvin: Racist Cop or Product of a Racist Police Academy?	6
Racial Identity Profiles Among Suicidal Black Women: A Replication and Extension Study	6
Expect the Best; Not the Worst: The Impact of Parental Expectation on Black Males’ Math Scores	6
#ModernBaartmans: Black Women’s Reimagining of Saartjie Baartman	6
“Where I Can Breathe”: Examining the Impact of the Current Racial Climate on Black Students’ Choice to Attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities	6
“We Can Redefine Ourselves”: Enhancing Black College Men’s Persistence Through Counterspaces	5
Colorism and the Poetics of Resistance Among Black Youth: An Application of the Colorist-Historical Trauma Framework	5
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	4
“We Have a Black Professor?” Rejecting African Americans as Disseminators of Knowledge	4
Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies	4
Strong Black Women: Linking Stereotypes, Stress, and Overeating Among a Sample of Black Female College Students	4
Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Life Expectancy in the American South	3
Race, Gender, and Perceived Employment Discrimination	3
Kemetic Principles in African American Public Address: An Interrogation of the Rhetoric of Joseph C. Price and the Kemetic Tradition	3
“He Was a Good Boy”: The Caribbean Black Mothers’ Experience of Coping and Grief With the Homicide of Their Sons in Trinidad	3
Worse Than “Bushmen” and Transhumance? Transitology and the Resilient Cannibalization of African Heritages	3
Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988	3

Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society: An Afrocentric Perspective	3
Don’t Talk to White People: On the Epistemological and Rhetorical Limitations of Conversations With White People for Anti-Racist Purposes: An Essay	3
Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III	2
Decolonizing Cultural Probes in Ethnographic Research: Perspective of African Scholars	2
Exploring Parental Identities: How Single Black Males Understand Fatherhood in the Absence of Their Fathers	2
Return to the Source: Cabral, Fanon, the Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization/Revolutionary Re-Africanization, and the African Renaissance	2
Unmasking My Truth: Autoethnography of Psychological Stress as a Black Woman in the Academy	2
African Discourses on the Africanization and Decolonization of Social and Human Sciences	2
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	2
Under the Brutal Watch: A Historical Examination of Slave Patrols in the United States and Brazil During the 18th and 19th Centuries	2
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	2
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	2
Self-Reported Experiences of Racial Discrimination Among African Americans in Upstate New York	2
HBCUs Matter: A Review of Behavioral Health at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	1
Conceptualising Male Vulnerability in a Ghanaian Context: Implications for Adult Education and Counselling	1
Placemaking in the Transnational Caribbean: A Rastafari Community in Ethiopia	1
Wine, Beer, and Lotto: Black Community Mobilization Against Liquor Stores in Chicago	1
“Godsplaining”: Toward a Theory of Religious Capital in Political Rhetoric	1
African Cultural Memory in Fred Khumalo’sTouch my Bloodand its Metafictional Para-texts	1
Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas	1
Framing the Problematics of Choice and Legacy: A Reading of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson as a Dilemma Tale	1
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	1
The Cost of Regime Survival: Political Instability, Underdevelopment, and (Un)natural Disasters in Haiti Before the 2010 Earthquake	1
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism inWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage	1
The Ram’s Horns: Reflections on the Legacy of Abdias Nascimento	1
Book Review: Africana womanism: Reclaiming ourselves	1
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	1
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	1
The Remarkable Curvature of the Mind of Abdias do Nascimento	1
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	1
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	1
Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento	1
Strategies for Support: Black Women Faculty Career Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	1
Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts	1
Sustainability Education for Ontological Re/Configuration: COVID-19 as a Pointer to the Ailing World Asili	1
Death by Wasting Away: The Life, Last Days, and Legacy of Lucy Byard	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	1
The Dilemma of Global South’s Contributions to Critical Security Studies: The African Case	1
A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022	1
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	1
Becoming an Africana Activist Scholar: David C. Turner, III and Black Graduate Student Activism as Professional Development, A Case Study	1
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	1