Derrick R. Brooms, PhD
Educator | Scholar | Speaker | Writer | Youth Worker
Executive Director, Black Men's Research Institute
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
Research: Black boys and men's lived experiences, education, and identities; men of color in college; race and racial justice; representations in the media
Derrick R. Brooms, PhD, serves as the Executive Director of the Black Men's Research Institute (BMRI) and Professor of Africana Studies at Morehouse College; he also is a Faculty Affiliate with the Atlanta University Center's Data Science Initiative. He serves as a youth worker as well. His research and activism are informed by his commitment to racial justice and primarily focus on educational equity, race and racism, diversity and inclusion, and identity and representation.
Research Spotlight
Drawing on interviews that span over multiple years, Derrick R. Brooms provides detailed accounts of a select group of Black young men's pathways from secondary school through college. As opposed to the same old stories about young Black men, Brooms offers new narratives that speak to Black boys' and young men's agency, aspirations, hopes, and possibilities.
Brooms, D. R. (2021). Stakes is high: Trials, lessons, and triumphs in young Black men’s educational journeys. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Publisher's Link)
Selected research articles and chapters
DBrooms (2021)- Black Males as Problems- Black Men's Experiences, Meanings, and Stratgegies to Resist Deficit Framings.pdf
Stakes is high: Black men’s college endeavors and educational desires.
Derrick R. Brooms
Re-Imagining Magazine: Education, Culture, World. (2022, November 10)
https://reimaginingmagazine.com/project/stakes-is-high/
Educational desires and resilience among Black male students at a Hispanic-serving institution
Derrick R. Brooms
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000381
What’s going on here? Black men and gendered antiblackness at a Hispanic serving institution
Derrick R. Brooms
Race Ethnicity and Education (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2022.2154371
Between the world and us: Black men navigating antiblackness at historically white institutions
Derrick R. Brooms & Jarrod E. Druery
Educational Studies (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2023.2207696
Conceptualizing Black boys’ possibilities in the educational continuum
Jelisa S. Clark, Keisha M. Wint, & Derrick R. Brooms
Int'l Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2023.2181461
"I didn't want to be a statistic": Black males, urban schooling and educational urgency
Derrick R. Brooms
Race Ethnicity and Education (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2020.1803821
Understanding the laws of harvest: Black and Latino male collegians enacting critical race care as youth workers
Jelisa S. Clark, Derrick R. Brooms, Matthew Smith & William Franklin
Teachers College Record (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681211070874
Caring now and later: Black boys' schooling experiences and relational care.
Derrick R. Brooms & Keisha M. Wint
Teachers College Record (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681211051995
Black males as “problems”? Black men’s experiences, meanings, and strategies to resist deficit framings
Derrick R. Brooms
Issues in Race & Society (2021)
Connecting with my brothers: Exploring Black men's community, bonding and identities in college
Derrick R. Brooms
Gender and Education (2021)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1837347
Unapologetic Black inquiry: Centering Blackness in education research
Jelisa S. Clark & Derrick R. Brooms
In C. E. Matias (Ed.), The handbook of critical theoretical research methods in education (pp. 303-318). Routledge (2021)
Ideology and identity among white male teachers in an all-Black, all-male high school
L. Onnie Rogers & Derrick R. Brooms
American Educational Research Journal (2020)
https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219853224
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