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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“I’m Supposed To Be Thick”: Managing Body Image Anxieties Among Black American Women	28
Black Death and Mourning as Pandemic	25
Strong Black Women: Linking Stereotypes, Stress, and Overeating Among a Sample of Black Female College Students	11
Agenda 2063 and the Feasibility of Sustainable Development in Africa: Any Silver Bullet?	11
“Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown”: A Critical Race Analysis of the CROWN Act	8
Derek Chauvin: Racist Cop or Product of a Racist Police Academy?	7
Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies	7
“Where I Can Breathe”: Examining the Impact of the Current Racial Climate on Black Students’ Choice to Attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities	7
“We Can Redefine Ourselves”: Enhancing Black College Men’s Persistence Through Counterspaces	7
#ModernBaartmans: Black Women’s Reimagining of Saartjie Baartman	6
Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Life Expectancy in the American South	6
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	5
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	5
Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society: An Afrocentric Perspective	5
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	5
Race, Gender, and Perceived Employment Discrimination	5
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	4
Fanon on the Arbitrariness of Using Violence: An Inevitable for Both Colonialism and Decolonization	3
Under the Brutal Watch: A Historical Examination of Slave Patrols in the United States and Brazil During the 18th and 19th Centuries	3
Strategies for Support: Black Women Faculty Career Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	3
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	3
Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988	3
Return to the Source: Cabral, Fanon, the Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization/Revolutionary Re-Africanization, and the African Renaissance	2
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	2
Unmasking My Truth: Autoethnography of Psychological Stress as a Black Woman in the Academy	2

Exploring Parental Identities: How Single Black Males Understand Fatherhood in the Absence of Their Fathers	2
Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III	2
Negotiating African American Language, Identity, and Culture in the Urban Classroom	2
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	2
The Cost of Regime Survival: Political Instability, Underdevelopment, and (Un)natural Disasters in Haiti Before the 2010 Earthquake	2
“Godsplaining”: Toward a Theory of Religious Capital in Political Rhetoric	2
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	2
Decolonizing Cultural Probes in Ethnographic Research: Perspective of African Scholars	2
The Dilemma of Global South’s Contributions to Critical Security Studies: The African Case	1
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	1
Re-Conceptualizing Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protests and His Banishment From the NFL as an Infringement on His “Right to Work”	1
Homenagem: Remembering the Life and Work of Abdias Nascimento	1
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa: The Role of Indigenous Cultural Norms and Values	1
Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop	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
Book Review: Africana womanism: Reclaiming ourselves	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
A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022	1
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	1
Black Fathers Matter: Messages of Hope in Black Father-Themed Instagram Memes	1
Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study	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
Race, Gender, and HIV Testing: A Nationwide Study of the Social Determinants of Black Male and Female Differences in HIV Testing	1
“I am an African”: A Philosophical Enquiry of Identity and Culture	1
The Ram’s Horns: Reflections on the Legacy of Abdias Nascimento	1
Conceptualising Male Vulnerability in a Ghanaian Context: Implications for Adult Education and Counselling	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	1
The Remarkable Curvature of the Mind of Abdias do Nascimento	1
Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas	1
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	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
Strategic Mentoring: A Culturally Responsive Approach for Supporting Black Males	1
“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	1
HBCUs Matter: A Review of Behavioral Health at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	1
Examining Practices of Retaining Black Female Faculty and Staff in Independent Schools	1
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage	1
#RealBleachers: Black Women’s Knowledge of Skin Whitening Risks	1
Embracing African Traditional Knowledge Health Systems in a HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemic Era	1
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	1