Courses
Race, Ethnicity and Culture: Qualitative Inquiries into Urban Education I; The Education of Black Children and Youth in the United States; Introduction to African American Studies; Construction and Experience of Black Adolescence

Research Interests
Black adolescent development, critical educational theory, language and literacy, sociocultural studies. Professor Duncan's research focuses broadly on race, culture, education, and society. Along these lines, he has published on black youth, identity, language, and ethics in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, encyclopedias, and other reference books. His current project, “Schooling as a Moral Enterprise,” is an ethnographic study that examines the moral and political contexts of the education of black students in urban and suburban schools. This project is largely concerned with questions of race, citizenship and democracy in the contexts of postindustrialism and globalization.

Selected Publications:

Duncan, G. (2006). Discourse, cultural imperialism, and black culture and language research in the United States. In Shi-xu (Ed.), Discourses as cultural struggle (pp. 155-168). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Duncan, G. (2005). Schooling as a moral enterprise: Rethinking educational justice 50 years after Brown. In D. Byrne (Ed.), Brown v. Board of Education: Its impact on public education 1954-2004 (pp. 195-212). New York: Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.

Duncan, G. (2005). Critical race ethnography in education: Narrative, inequality, and the problem of epistemology. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8 (1), 95-116.

Duncan, G. (2005). Black youth, identity, and ethics. Educational Theory, 55 (1), 3-22.

Duncan, G. & Jackson, R. (2004). The language we cry in: Black language practice at a post-desegregated urban high school. GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 3 (1).