JOEL I. PLUMMER
Joel I. Plummer earned a B.A. in African and African American Studies, an M.A. in history, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Rutgers University-Newark. He earned a Supervisor of Instruction Certificate through the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. He has taught African American and U.S. history for more than two decades at the secondary level and currently teaches in the Africana Studies department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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In addition to teaching, Joel I. Plummer has worked as a photojournalist for more than a decade. The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, NBC, CBS, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and numerous international media outlets have published his work. He is a product of the Plainfield Public School District in New Jersey, is a member of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., and still lives in Plainfield with his wife, Danielle, and their children, Alexis, Morgan, and Mason.
PROJECTS
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What 20 Years of Teaching Has Taught Me About Saving Black Children From American Schools
Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels
The unique socio-historical experience of being Black in America has created children with unique educational needs.
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Yet, every day, millions of Black children attend schools that ignore their specific history and culture as they listen to teachers talk about everything except themselves.
Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels provides parents and teachers of Black children with the tools to ensure Black children's educational, psychological, and emotional needs are met at school.
Parents and teachers will learn how to correct schools' mismatched educational practices and replace them with ones that teach Black children to accurately see who they are, what they are capable of, and to feel empowered to control their futures even in the face of opposition.
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE
2020 Abridged Version of the #Blacklivesmatter Photo-documentary
THE BLACK ATHLETE READER
An annotated bibliography for the 21st Century Black athlete.
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
A multi-year photo-documentary covering the outbreak of protests against police violence, racial vigilante murder, and systemic White supremacy that erupted in the wake of the killings of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.
TRANSLUCENT BORDERS: GHANA
In the summer of 2017, I was invited to travel to Ghana as part of the Translucent Borders (http://www.translucentborders.com) workgroup that operates out of New York University's Global Institute for Advanced Studies. Translucent Borders' focus is on the role of dance and music at physical as well as cultural borders and the role that the arts play in blurring lines between seemingly disparate groups of people.