Richard Majors, Ph.D.

• Education
• Teaching
• Scholarship
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Dr. Richard Majors is the founder and deputy editor of the Journal of African Studies. His book, Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America was submitted by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and was on the “National Best Seller” list for 1994. It is currently in its 7th printing. Dr. Majors career includes: a clinical fellowship at Harvard; a research fellowship at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC; serving as a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, and a teaching lecturer at Cambridge University in the UK. He is considered to be one of the leading social scientists on the topic of inner city youth. His articles and research have appeared in major academic journals, magazines, and on numerous television and radio programs in the US and the UK.

Education

Ph.D. - Educational Psychology - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - 1987

B.A. - History - Plattsburgh State College, Plattsburgh, NY - 1977

A.A. - Auburn Community College, Auburn, NY - 1974

Teaching

Mantra rites of Passage/Manhood Training Programme Curriculum For Boys. Developed Rites of Passage and Personal Development Programme (First accredited program in the UK) for Students at City College, Manchester, 2002.

‘Emotional Literacy in Education’. Co-developed the first Emotional Literacy course in a University in Scotland, (University of Glasgow). The course was developed for the Charter Teacher Scheme. 2002.

‘Boys and Schooling: Programs and strategies that improve attainment and promote positive behaviour in the classroom.’ Cambridge University, Cambridge (short course, with Peter Hodkinson) 3rd March 2003.

Teacher Empathy and Relationship Programme (Curriculum and Workshop), 2003

Scholarship

Majors, R. G., & Nikelly, A. (1993). Serving the Black minority: A new direction for psychotherapy.  Journal of Non-White Concerns, 11, 142-151.

Majors, R. G. (1986). Cool Pose: The proud signature of Black survival. In  Hanging Men: Issues in Gender, Sex, and Politics, 17,
5-6

Nikelly, A., &  Majors, R. G. (1986) Techniques for counselling Black students. Techniques: A Journal for Remedial Education and counselling, 2,  48-54.

Majors, R. G. (1990). Cool pose: Black masculinity and sports. In M. Messner and D. Sabo (Eds.). Sport, Men and the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Majors, R. G. (1991). Non-verbal behaviours and communication style among Black Americans. In R. Jones (Ed.) Black Psychology (3rd Edition). Berkely, CA:Cobb& Henry.

Balcazar, F. E., Majors, R. G., Blanchard, K. A., Paine, A., Balcazar, Y., Fawcett, S., Murphy, M. A., & Meyer, J. (1991).  Teaching minority high school students to recruit helpers to attain personal and educational goals.  Journal of behavioural Education,  (4) 445-454.

Majors, R. G.. & Billson, J. (1992).  Cool pose: The dilemmas of Black manhood in America. New York: Lexington Books (MacMillan).

Harris, S., & Majors, R. G. (Feb, 1993). Special Issue: Black Men. Journal of Men’s Studies.

Harris, S., & Majors, R. G. (Feb. 1993).  Cultural value differences: implications for the experiences of African-American males.  In S. Harris & Majors, R. G. (Eds.) Journal of Men’s Studies.

Majors, R. G., Peden, B., Tyler, R., & Hall, R. (1993).  Cool pose: A coping strategy for understanding masculine role enactment among black males. In Majors, R. & J. Gordon (Eds.),  The American Black Male: His Present Status and Future.  Chicago, nelson-Hall.

Majors, R. (1993).  A reason for hope: An overview of the new Black male Movement in the United States?  In Majors, R. & J. Gordon Hall (Eds.),  The American Black Male: His Present  Status and Future.  Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Majors, R. & Gordon, J. (1993).  The American Black male: His present status and future.  Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Majors, R. (1994).  The history of playing the dozens.  In J. Percelay, M. Ivy, & S. Dweck (Editors), SNAPS: Playing the Dozens.  New York: Morrow.

Majors, R. (1994) Overview of Black male in the U.S. (Introduction Chapter).  In R. Majors,  and J. Gordon (Eds.)  The American Black male: His present status and future.  Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Lazur, R., & Majors, R. (1995).  Men of Colour: Ethno cultural Variations of Male gender Role Strain.  In R. Levant & W. Pollack (Eds.),  A New Psychology of men.  New York: Basic Books.

Majors, R. & Weiner, Susan (1995).  Programs that Serve African American Youth.  Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.

Majors, R. (1995).  A new Social Policy Model for Endangered African American Men and Youth: An Infrastructural perspective.  An Urban Institute Policy Paper. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute

Majors, R. (1996). Black males and violence.  Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Majors, R. & Levant, R. (1997). (Special quest editors).
Psychological Perspectives on African American Men. Journal of African American Men.

Majors, R. & Levant, Ron (1997).  You can Breath Now: A Psychological Response to Waiting to Exhale. Journal of African American Men 2. (4), 47-57.

Majors, R. & Levant, R (1997). Masculinity Ideology Among American and European American College Women And Men.  Journal of Gender Culture and Health, 2  (1), 33-43.

Majors, R., Gilborn, D., & Sewell, T. (1998).  The Exclusion of Black Children: Implications for a Racialised Perspective. Multicultural Teaching 16 (3), 35-37.

Majors, R. & Levant, R., & Kelly, M. (1998). Masculinity Ideology Among Young African American and European American Women And Men in Different Regions of the United States.  Cultural Diversity and Mental Health. (4)3, 227-236.

Majors R., Wilkinson V., & Gulman, B. (2000). Mentoring Black Males in Manchester: In K. Owusu (Eds.). Black British Culture and Society. London: Routlegde.

Majors R., (2001).  Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches.  London/New York: Routlege/Falmer.

Majors R., (2001). Understanding the current educational status of Black children. In R. Majors (Ed). Educating Our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches. London/New York: Routlege/Falmer.

Sewell, T. & Majors R., (2001). Black Boys and Schooling: An intervention framework for understanding the dilemmas of masculinity identity and underachievement. In R. Majors (Ed).  Educating Our Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches. London/New York: Routlege/Falmer.

Majors R., & Clarke S. (2001). Mantra Rites of Passage for Young Men: A New Manhood Training Programme for Today’s Young Men. Working with Young Men. London.

Majors R., & Dewar S. (2002). Mantra Rites of Passage: Teaching & Nurturing Our Boys To Be Men In The 21 st Century. Education Research, 16, (1), 80-85.

Levant R., Richmond K., Majors R., Inclan J., Rossello J., Heesacker M., Rowan G. & Sellers A. (2003). A Multicultural Investigation of Masculinity Idealogy and Alexithymia.  Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 4, 2, 91-99.

Andrew V. & Majors R., ( 2004) Non-verbal Behaviour and Black Culture. In R. Jones Black Psychology (4th). Hampton, VA: Cobbl Henry Publishers, pp313-351

Majors R. (2004). Can we break the Punishment Cycle? Broadcast,  Spring edition, pp. 38-39.

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