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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Withdrawal Due to Administrative Error: Inadvertent Publication	18
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	11
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
Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study	8
Recognition and Recognizability in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined	7
The Impact of Colorism on Criminal Justice System Outcomes: A Scoping Study	7
“It’s Not a System of Care”: Black Youth’s Stories of Family Separation and Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	6
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	6
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	6
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	5
“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit	4
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	4
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	4
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	4
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics	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
The Most Livable City in America? Reparations Model Implementation, Progressive Mindsets, and Post-Racialism in Evanston, Illinois	4
“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	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
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline	3
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3
“I am an African”: A Philosophical Enquiry of Identity and Culture	3
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	3

The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time	2
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	2
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	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
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	2
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	2
American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	2
Hussle and Motivate: An Afrocentric Understanding of Constitutive Rhetoric Toward Economic Empowerment in Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap Album	1
FRAMING A BLACK PACIFIC ETHNOSPHERE: Beyoncé and Indigenous Māori Dance Evolution in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun	1
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	1
Leading While Black Amid a Failed Racial Reckoning	1
Book Review: Black cyclists: The race for inclusion TurpinRobert J. (2024). Black cyclists: The race for inclusion. University of Illinois Press. 248pp. ISBN: 978-0252087851.	1
Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop	1
Book Review: The History of Black Studies	1
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa: The Role of Indigenous Cultural Norms and Values	1
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	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
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	1
It’s Giving Black Power: A Case Study of One Black Student Union in California and the Historical Framework for Structural Change They Used	1
Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts	1
Immersing Undergraduate Students in Diasporic Experiences: Black Studies, Study Away, and Afro-Puerto Rico	1
Fanonian Art Practices: Toward A Decolonial Grammar of Being	1
Missing the Mark: The Cost of Overlooking Black Students’ Cultural Capital	1
Land and Identity in Afrikan Tradition: The Origins of the Ancestral Land Complex	1
The Roles of Riddles, Puzzles, and Narratives as Pedagogy in Video Games: A Case of African-Themed Video Games	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	1
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	1
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	1
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	1
Youth Invasion: The Dramatic Surge in Drug Abuse and Criminal Behaviors in Southwest Nigeria	1
“We Out Here”: Black Women, Well-Being, and #blackgirlsrun on Instagram	1
Book Review: Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife	1
When We Know Better, We Do Better: Educators’ Storied Reflections on Black Teacher Attrition and Retention	1
Book Review: Do you remember? Celebrating 50 years of earth, wind, & fire BaileyT. (2023). Do you remember? Celebrating 50 years of earth, wind, & fire. The Univ	1
African American Redemption in the Pan-African Metropolis: Africanized Identities, Pan-African Lives and the African World Festival in Detroit	1
Decolonizing the Curriculum: Who Were the Ancient Europeans?	0
The Suppression and Liberation of Malcolm’s Personal Agency: Malcolm X and His Religio-Racial Understanding of White People	0
Relevant Leadership for Black Children: Calling All Black Public School Principal Supervisors	0
The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Students Attending a HBCU	0
Anti-Black Racism in the Ontario Public School System: Problematizing the Labeling of Young Black Students as Troublemakers	0
Black Bodies in America as the Metaphors for Oppression, Poverty, Violence, and Hate: Searching for Sustainable Solutions Beyond the Black-letter Law	0
Under the Brutal Watch: A Historical Examination of Slave Patrols in the United States and Brazil During the 18th and 19th Centuries	0
Global Coloniality and Ecological Injustice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021)	0
Book Review: Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class	0
Book Review: Rethinking Reparations	0

You Are What You Eat: Affirming Podcast and Subjective Wellbeing among African American Women	0
From Harlem to Africa: The New Negro Movement and the Trans-Atlantic Vision for Black Education and Liberation	0
Using a Phenomenological and Fanon Analytic: A Methodological Framework and Method for Research with Impoverished Black Male Youth	0
Toward a Socially Oriented Agricultural Model for Africa’s Renaissance	0
Symbolic Annihilation: Analyzing Associated Press’s Erasure of Vanessa Nakate and Marginalization of Black Women Activists	0
HBCUs Matter: A Review of Behavioral Health at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	0
Jump Nyabinghi: Black Radical Militancy, Rastafarianism, and Jamaican Cultural Influence on Black America	0
Gendered Framing of Agribusiness Under USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative in Liberia: A Colonial Sequel?	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
Black Migration and the Politics of Belonging: Nigerian Immigrants Navigating Adaptation and Identity in the U.S.	0
Book Review: Being Black In The Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism In Higher Education Being Black In The Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism In Higher Education. DavisShar	0
Negotiating African American Language, Identity, and Culture in the Urban Classroom	0
Transdisciplinary Africana Studies and Africana Poetical Science: A Conversation	0
Editor-In-Chief’s Message	0
Return to the Source: Cabral, Fanon, the Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization/Revolutionary Re-Africanization, and the African Renaissance	0
Strong Black Women: Linking Stereotypes, Stress, and Overeating Among a Sample of Black Female College Students	0
Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos	0
White Philanthropy Won’t Save Black Education: Tracing an “Ordinary” Segregated School’s Life in Delaware	0
Explaining Antithetical Movements to the Black Lives Matter Movement Based on Relative Deprivation Theory	0
Learning While Black: Racial and Educational Challenges of Black Students	0
Race, Gender, and HIV Testing: A Nationwide Study of the Social Determinants of Black Male and Female Differences in HIV Testing	0
An Africological Excavation of Colonial Discourse	0
Book Review: The Love Jones cohort: Single and living alone in the Black middle class	0
Black Woman Victimhood: An Intersectional Analysis of Meg Thee Stallion’s Testimony	0
Does Racism Discriminate? Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Among Nigerians and Jamaicans in Houston Texas	0
The (Re)construction of the Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade: Bimbia in Cameroon Between Silence, Rehabilitation, and Cultural Dialogue	0
Nnamdi Azikiwe Center: Historicizing the Immortalization of Zik’s Lodge in Nigeria—the Journey, the Project, and Tourism Potentials	0
The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics	0
Strategies for Support: Black Women Faculty Career Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities	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
Retrofuturist Speculations: Race as Technology in Olaudah Equiano’s Vision of a Future	0
Becoming an Africana Activist Scholar: David C. Turner, III and Black Graduate Student Activism as Professional Development, A Case Study	0
Doing the Work of God: HBCU’s and Black America’s Response to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918	0
Negotiating Blackness, and Culture in Brazilian Metal Scene	0
Black Fathers Matter: Messages of Hope in Black Father-Themed Instagram Memes	0
Book Review: Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature	0
Racial Capitalism and the Propaganda of Conservative Economics	0
We Are STEM: Examining the Significance and Influence of Counterspaces in the Development of Black Girls’ STEM Identity	0
#RealBleachers: Black Women’s Knowledge of Skin Whitening Risks	0
A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022	0
Retaining Family Identity: Lived Experience of Caregiving in the Black Community	0
Book Review: Black cultural mythology	0
Black Communities’ Relationship to Hip-Hop Culture, Self-Efficacy and Critical Consciousness	0
Pharmakons: The Poison and Cure of Black Youth Mentorship in Canada	0
Voter Suppression Laws and the Racial Turnout Gap in America	0
Teaching Psychological Concepts Through a Hip-Hop Pedagogy	0
Toward a Critical Race Theorization of Cultural Capital for Black Education Studies Research	0
Book Review: Caste: The Lies That Divide Us	0
Agency Reduction Formation: The Origin and Development of a Practical Theory	0
US Media, Selective Exposure, and the Promotion of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Black and Latino Communities	0
Technological Advocacy and Crime Reporting in an HBCU Setting: Addressing the Prospect of Legal Cynicism in the Ebony Tower	0
The Converging Streams of Afrikan War and Resistance in the Afrikan World	0
The Dilemma of Global South’s Contributions to Critical Security Studies: The African Case	0
Book Review: Review of Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom	0
Book review: The world looks like this from here: Thoughts on African psychology	0
Unequal Access: Healthcare Disparities in Cervical Cancer Screening Among African Women	0
Rage In (and Out) the Cage: Black Students’ Negotiation of Safety	0
Fanon on the Arbitrariness of Using Violence: An Inevitable for Both Colonialism and Decolonization	0
Black Psychology and Black Criminality: Myths and Reality on the Origins of Black Street Life	0
Why Race and Place Matter: Examining the Intersection of Cybersecurity and Digital Equity	0
Potential Contribution of African-American Migrants to Economic and Cultural Development in Africa	0
Book Review: Dear Science and Other Stories	0
Tornadic Black Angels: Vodou, Dance, Revolution	0
“Hidden” No More: Newspapers’ Framing of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson	0
Framing the Problematics of Choice and Legacy: A Reading of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson as a Dilemma Tale	0
Book Review: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine BlackstockUché (2024). Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.New York: Viking. 304 pp, $28.00. ISBN 978059349	0
Situating Dashed Prospects of Independence into the Xenophobic Narrative in South Africa	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
Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Life Expectancy in the American South	0
“The Beat” of the Black Press: An Exploratory Analysis of Black Newspapers and Their Podcasts	0
Unmasking My Truth: Autoethnography of Psychological Stress as a Black Woman in the Academy	0
“Skin Markings: Filtering COVID-19 Through Levitical and Black Lenses”	0
Returning at Any Cost? How Black College Students Feel Toward COVID Vaccines and Institutional Mandates	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
Black Campus Climate: Towards a Liberatory and Equitable Black Campus Experience	0
Book Review: Black popular culture and social justice: Beyond the culture Bonnette-BaileyL. M.GaylesJ. I. (Eds.). (2024). Black popular culture and social justice: Beyon	0
“My Anxiety Has Been Heightened”: Black Mothers’ Concerns Regarding Children’s Return to In-person Learning Following COVID-19-Related Remote Learning	0