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Publications

Dr. Kevin Foster's major publications, spanning the last 25 years.

Understanding Texas School Finance 

(2024)

An exploration of the school finance system in Texas as it related to Tax Rate Elections.

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Destruction of Black Communities in the Name of Progress

(2019)

The case of Austin, 1865-1928.

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Dreaming in Context

(2013)

Micro- and Structural Transformations in an age of standatdized testing.

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Through The Perfect Storm

(2010)

Understanding the politics of public education.

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Partnerships for STEM Education

(2010)

How school teachers and higher-education faculty can benefit one another to improve teaching and student learning.

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Documenting Tragedy and Resistance

(2008)

The Importance of Spike Lee's When the Levee's Broke.

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Black Greeks and Underground Pledging

(2008)

Public debates and communal concerns.

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Forward-Looking Criticism

(2008)

Critiques and Enhancements for the next generation of the Cultural-Ecological Model.

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Are they Katrinas' Kids or Ours?

(2007)

The experience of displaced New Orleans students in their new schools and communities.

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Bridging troubled Waters

(2006)

Principles for teaching in times of crisis.

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Gods or Vermin

(2005)

Alternative readings of the African American experience among African and African American Students.

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Diet of Disparagement

(2005)

The racial experiences of Black students in a predominantly White university.

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Narratives of the Social Scientist

(2005)

Understanding the work of John Ogbu.

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Coming to Terms

(2004)

A discussion of John Ogbu's cultural-ecological theory of minority academic achievement.

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The Contours of Community

(2003)

Analyzing the formation and maintenance of a black student community on a predominantly white campus.

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Panopticonics

(2003)

An Anlysis of the control and surveillance of Black female athletes in an elite athletic department.

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