US Black History Month
Month of February
Black History Month is a celebration of the African diaspora around the world, remembering the important people and events that occurred throughout history. This is celebrated every year in February for USA and Canada, and is further celebrated in October in places such as the UK, Netherlands and Ireland.
This year’s US Black History Month theme is 'Black health and wellness,' a look at how American healthcare has often underserved the African American community.
Alongside the lived experiences of people of color, research has a vital role to play in our conversations about race, this US Black History Month and beyond. We've gathered several freely accessible resources including journals, book chapters, podcasts and blogs all of which explore the evidence of anti-black racism which appears within contexts such as education, workplace, and healthcare.
If you are working on related research that can help tackle anti-black racism, or if you would like to contribute to the content featured on this page, please get in touch.
US Black History Month free research
Anti-blackness, surface-level diversity continues to matter: what must we do?
Discusses perceptions of anti-blackness, research on 'surface-level' diversity and recommendations for faculty, administrators and allies.
Do black lives really matter in the workplace? Restorative justice as a means to reclaim humanity
Organisations largely ignore how racism and slavery have informed management practice and contemporary workplace racism. The authors address this gap, using the BLM movement as a platform.
Anti-racist actions and accountability: not more empty promises
Summarises five critical points about racism from the point of view of Black scholars and allies.
A death in the family: a metaphor about race and police brutality
Uses social psychological theory and our experiences as Black Americans and diversity scholars to illustrate why interracial conversations about police killings of Black people may not proceed as intended.
Access to justice as a human right, organizational entitlement and precursor to diversity and inclusion
Draws upon theory and research across a variety of disciplines to examine the accessibility of justice for African Americans.
The right to breathe: a sociological commentary on racialized injustice, borders and violence
A commentary on the structure, context and unsettling circumstances of prejudice, discrimination, racial violence and injustice in the contemporary US.
Intersecting viruses: a clarion call for a new direction in diversity theorizing
Discusses the implications of the confluence of the racial disparities in the effects of the Coronavirus and the persistence of racial inequality for a new direction of theorising in the field.
Black Professorship: The Beauty and the Beast
May these stories serve as inspiration, motivation, and a call to duty for other Black professors. And may you, the reader, better understand the beauty and the burden of Black professorship.
The Case for African American Management History
In the field of Management, there is a scarcity of research that focuses on the traditions and historical contributions of people of African descent.
Multiplicitous Black Mixed-Race Men and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience: Double Consciousness, Hybridity and the Threat of Racial Mismatch
Develops an understanding of how Black mixed-race men negotiate their racial identities, and illustrates the processes invoked through ‘post-racial’ resilience.
Cooperative advantage during the pioneer movement west: The lessons of Nicodemus, Kansas for modern black communities
Establishes a reference point for understanding how Nicodemus warrants significant inclusion in the history of management and current entrepreneurship education.
Texts, white lies and a videotape: white teachers teaching African American literature
Examines instances of culturally inexperienced white teachers teaching African American literature to middle school and high school multilingual learners.
Toward a new understanding of immigrant information behavior: A survey study on information access and information overload among US Black diasporic immigrants
Explores information overload among Black immigrants in the US.
I need to know my past: Black fifth-graders on race and racism
Focuses on fifth-grade African American students who attend an all-Black charter school whose administration and teachers are committed to providing Black history instruction throughout the year.
Our podcasts & blogs
Diversity and inclusion in organisations
Inequalities in mental health care for black communities
Decolonising the business curriculum in the era of Black Lives Matter
During these uncertain times, we are calling for scholars and practitioners alike to continue efforts to champion change in the world as it relates to respecting Black lives (and minds).
America cannot be great when Black lives do not matter
Images of violent police clashes with protestors from Los Angeles to Atlanta, and Minneapolis in between, can easily be mistaken as riots in any failed state. Yet these horrific images are from the very streets of America.
Black Lives Matter: our commitment
The team at Emerald have been taking some time to reflect on recent events and our response. We believe that Black lives matter, today and every day, and that injustice and intolerance must end.
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Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
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