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
The Women of Operation Breadbasket: A Lost Chapter in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement	12
Cultural War: The Critical Need for African Centered Education	12
Recognition and Recognizability in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined	10
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
The Impact of Colorism on Criminal Justice System Outcomes: A Scoping Study	9
Beyond Good Hair : An Act of Resistance to Symbolic Annihilation	8
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
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	7
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	6
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
“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
The Use of Cyberbonding Play to Navigate Antiblack Racism at a Hispanic-Serving Institution	3
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
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
“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