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PAYING IT FORWARD:
BLACK MEN MENTORING IN A PREDOMINATELY LATINA/O COMMUNITY
by
A. James McKeever
____________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILIOSOPHY
(SOCIOLOGY)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 A. James McKeever
Object Description
| Title | Paying it forward: black men mentoring in a predominately latina/o community |
| Author | McKeever, A. James |
| Author email | mckeevaj@piercecollege.edu;jamesmckeever101@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Sociology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-11-28 |
| Date submitted | 2012-04-05 |
| Date approved | 2012-04-05 |
| Restricted until | 2012-04-05 |
| Date published | 2012-04-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Messner, Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Saito, Leland Gilmore, Ruth Pulido, Laura |
| Abstract | Much of the literature on mentoring in disadvantaged communities focuses on the black middle class’s ability to mentor and role model for the black poor (Anderson 1999; DuBois [1899] 1967; Wilson 1987). William Julius Wilson (1987) noted that as middleclass blacks began to achieve, they moved from their previous African-American neighborhoods to the suburbs, leaving an impoverished underclass. Elijah Anderson (1999) describes “old heads” as mostly men who lived in low-income, African-American communities and had been able to obtain some economic markers of success who mentor young people. Anderson goes on to discuss how continued economic disenfranchisement has led to fewer “old heads” in the community. This dissertation examines the roles of African-American male coaches at a predominantly Latino recreation center in Los Angeles who take on the same role as Elijah Anderson’s “old heads.” The difference with these “old heads” is that, for them, community and the youth they mentor are not necessarily located where they live, but are at the recreation center where they congregate. Unlike much of the aforementioned work, these mentors or “Community Heads,” were raised as part of the working class or black poor and have limited educations. This study uses participant observation and interviews to examine a unique community site where new forms of cross-cultural mentorship occur and to challenge traditional top down approaches to studies of mentorship. |
| Keyword | race; gender; mentorship; black/latino relations; masculinity; African-Americans |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | McKeever, A. James |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume3/etd-McKeeverAJ-567.pdf |
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| Full text | PAYING IT FORWARD: BLACK MEN MENTORING IN A PREDOMINATELY LATINA/O COMMUNITY by A. James McKeever ____________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILIOSOPHY (SOCIOLOGY) May 2012 Copyright 2012 A. James McKeever |
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