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RACE AND ETHNICITY / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

FORTHCOMING NEW The African American

Encyclopedia of African Americans Student’s Guide to
African American by the Numbers STEM Careers
Business Understanding and ROBERT T. PALMER,
ANDREW T. ARROYO, AND
Updated and Interpreting Statistics ALONZO M. FLOWERS III
Revised Edition on African American Life FOREWORD BY FRED A. BONNER II
GLENN L. STARKS
2 VOLUMES
JESSIE CARNEY SMITH, EDITOR

GREENWOOD
December 2016, 181pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
GREENWOOD Print: 978-1-61069-735-4
July 2017, 180pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 $58.00, £45.00, €53.00
Print: 978-1-4408-4504-8 eBook: 978-1-61069-736-1
GREENWOOD $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
November 2017, 928pp, 7x10 eBook: 978-1-4408-4505-5
Print: 978-1-4408-5027-1 “ A practical tool for
$198.00, £153.00, €180.00 professionals working with
eBook: 978-1-4408-5028-8 Provides an invaluable source for African American students as
students as well as academics on the
current condition of African Americans, well as other students of color.
This two-volume set showcases the . . . Recommended. ”
achievements of African American highlighting disparities throughout an
entrepreneurs and the various array of social, economic, and political —ARBA, March 13, 2017
businesses that they founded, areas. This book comprehensively reviews the
developed, or promote as well as the FEATURES factors that facilitate access and success
accomplishments of many African • Clearly outlines the condition of of Black students in STEM majors in
American leaders—both those whose African Americans in relation to other higher education, and it shares compelling
work is well-known and other achievers races and ethnic groups testimonies from Black STEM professionals
who have been neglected in history. • Makes qualitative data on the current that will help inspire the next generation
condition of African Americans of Black scientists and engineers.
FEATURES
comprehensible, highlighting
• Provides a broad overview of the disparities in social, economic, and
development of African American political areas ROBERT T. PALMER, PhD, is associate
business and business leaders, from professor in the Department of
the beginning of black life in America Educational Leadership and Policy
through the present GLENN L. STARKS, PhD, has almost Studies at Howard University.
25 years of experience working ANDREW T. ARROYO, EdD, is
for the United States government associate professor of interdisciplinary
JESSIE CARNEY SMITH, PhD, is dean and has written extensively on studies and codirector for learning
of the library and holds the Camille Cosby public administration and American communities at Norfolk State
Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at politics, including two recent books University, a public historically Black
Fisk University, Nashville, TN. on the history of the United States institution.
government.
ALONZO M. FLOWERS III, PhD, is
assistant professor in the School of
Education at Drexel University.
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