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Donald Earl Collins

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Born

in Mount Vernon, New York, The United States

Website

http://www.donaldearlcollins.com

Twitter

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Genre

Memoir, History, Nonfiction

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I am a freelance and academic writer who has written on the topics of multiculturalism, education reform and African American identity for more than fifteen years. I have published articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Guardian, Black Issues in Higher Education, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, History of Education Quarterly, The Washington Post, Teachers College Record, Academe Magazine, Radical Society and the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. My publications include narrative profiles and stories, op-eds, book reviews, scholarly articles and feature articles, review entries and book chapters.

Boy @ The Window is my memoir that covers my years growing up in poverty and abuse in Mount Vernon, New York (s I am a freelance and academic writer who has written on the topics of multiculturalism, education reform and African American identity for more than fifteen years. I have published articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Guardian, Black Issues in Higher Education, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, History of Education Quarterly, The Washington Post, Teachers College Record, Academe Magazine, Radical Society and the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. My publications include narrative profiles and stories, op-eds, book reviews, scholarly articles and feature articles, review entries and book chapters.

Boy @ The Window is my memoir that covers my years growing up in poverty and abuse in Mount Vernon, New York (suburban New York City) during the 1980s. It's a story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite—or because of—the odds intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success—for a life worth living. Boy @ The Window is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

I am also the author of Fear of a “Black” America: Multiculturalism and the African American Experience (2004), an in-depth response to the conservative movement’s “Culture Wars” on all things “multicultural.” The book is about how African Americans and other groups of color coming to grips with their notions of multiculturalism in education and in their everyday lives.

Outside of my work as a writer, I've worked in academia and in the nonprofit world for more than a decade. I currently serve as an Adjunct Associate Professor with University of Maryland University College and have taught as an adjunct professor of African American History and American Education at Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, George Washington University, the University of the District of Columbia and Howard University. I also have been a consultant with Educational Testing Service, American Institutes for Research and the Junior Statesmen Foundation.

For more than four years I served as the Deputy Director of College Access and Success Initiatives with the Center for School and Community Services at Academy for Educational Development (AED - now FHI 360) in Washington, DC and New York City. I previously served as Assistant Director of the New Voices Fellowship Program at AED, a program for emerging leaders in the social justice field.

I have a Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Pittsburgh. I live in Silver Spring, Maryland with my wife and my nine-year old son. ...more

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Donald Earl Collins's Blog

Spinning Sage’s Gold is Now Live!

I haven’t posted on my old blog in a minute. But, I do have some news. Today’s the day of days! My third book about the present state of things and envisioning a future without this state of things is now out in the world, crying and nursing for the first time — yay, me!

I cannot wait for y’all to read this book! More info about Spinning Sage’s Gold: Allegories on the Western-Dominated Present and

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Average rating: 4.0 · 5 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Boy @ The Window 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fear of a "Black" America: Multiculturalism and the African American Experience it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spinning Sage's Gold: Allegories on the Western-Dominated Present and a Possible Post-Western Future 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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