African Americans In Higher Education: A Literature Review

After the publication of TCRTE, a number of educational scholars began to publish work in CRTE, thus expanding the relatively new theoretical framework. Tate (1997) published an extensive overview of CRT by recounting the major theoretical foundations of CRT and ascertaining the propositions that are pertinent to educational research and policy. Similarly, Taylor (1999) prepared a brief introduction of CRT describing the legal scholars who founded CRT, their major contributions, and how to apply CRT to education. Contributing to CRTE, Solrzano & Yosso (2002) specified how to use critical race as a methodological research design centered on storytelling and experiential knowledge of black students. Furthermore, Parker & Lynn (2002) utilized storytelling and narratives to study racism through a critical race lens. Additionally, Solrzano (1997) deepened the emerging body of literature of CRTE by explaining five foundational themes of CRT that are essential to research design and educational pedagogy. The works of the critical race theorists mentioned above established the foundation for other educational scholars to apply CRT in education (Ladson-Billings, 2013). Subsequently, other educational scholars …show more content…
Harper et al. (2009) modeled how to use the central tenets of CRT to analyze the history of African Americans in higher education and to assess policy decisions that nullified African Americans advancements to access higher education. One verdict that Harper et al. (2009) alleged contributed to the regression of Blacks was the 1954 ruling of Brown v. the Board of Education. The scholars goes on and state that because Brown v. the Board of Education was ruled unconstitutional to educate blacks and whites separately, insinuating that blacks were inferior to whites due to the perception that white institutions would provide a better education for