I highlight the importance of paying attention to the affective strategies of abolition pedagogies in higher education to mobilize abolitionist praxis. Affective strategies can make a contribution in either changing or reproducing the affective culture that has long been established at the colonial university. In the analysis here, I argue that…

In this paper we highlight key conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions of the sociology of race and racism, particularly those relevant to education scholars. We suggest that educational researchers could benefit from incorporating some of the insights of sociological research on race and racism into their scholarship as such…

When teacher candidates learn to teach for equity and social justice during their practicum, they must learn to deal with the emotional conflict and tension that arise from fraught racial dynamics. Because limited research has focused on teacher candidates of Color during their practicum, little is known about how they agentively navigate…

Borders--territorial, economic, political, and ideological--are processes of social division. They monitor and exclude and are regulated, patrolled, and maintained by an array of power regimes, but borderlands are also sites of movement, agency, and resistance. Likewise, mathematics is used as a border that divides and politicizes. In this…

In this article, I highlight resistance methods that teachers who identified as having disability studies in education and social justice identities used to uphold ideological commitments to these identities. I specifically focus on the teachers' leverage of the tactic of "working the cracks" to actively reframe disability outside of…

"Antiblackness," or the socially constructed rendering of Black bodies as inhuman, disposable, and inherently problematic, is the legacy of chattel slavery in the U.S. This article explores the visionary possibility of learning to recognize, honor and steward "Black Education Spaces" (BES). BES might be considered physical…

Many teacher activists engage in justice-oriented work within and outside their classrooms, yet the work of mathematics teacher activists has been understudied. In this qualitative interview study, I investigated ten women of Color mathematics teacher activists' actualization of their organizing work, which includes the creation of and…

Drawing from data from a multicase study, I examined how teachers teach current racial violence and for racial justice in rural school spaces in the U.S. South. Using abolitionist teaching and trauma-informed pedagogy as theoretical lenses, I argue that racial violence and racial justice can be taught well even in schools in complex political,…

This work analyzes a Grade 9 English Language Arts classroom discussion for moments of resistance and asks, What does student resistance accomplish when viewed as racial wisdom? Drawing from "posts" traditions, we analyzed the discussion's intra-actions or entanglements in order to more clearly understand how students draw from their…

This essay explores the relationship of two homeless youth--one queer and one trans--as they move together through and pass time in public space between the opening hours of their shelters and groups homes. Pulling from a critical ethnography of the experiences of trans and queer youth in New York City, this essay examines how these two youth come…

In this case study, we examine the consequential validity of using edTPA in a social justice-oriented, urban teacher preparation program. According to the developers of edTPA, a primary purpose is to support teacher candidate learning, yet our analysis suggests that edTPA does not support learning when used during student teaching. Our 16…

This article focuses on the author's collaborative work with the "Promotoras Comunitarias" of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles who teach the "Familias Diversas" workshop series. Taught in Spanish, the project's goal is to teach parents how to become advocates for and supporters of Latina/o(x) queer youth. The work of the…

The advent of critical race theory (CRT) in legal scholarship changed the way in which legal scholars think about race and racism in at least three ways. First, CRT scholars argue that the problem of racial justice is fundamental to American law, whereas the previous generation of civil rights scholars saw racial justice as a problem of…

This article situates educational leaders as prophetic critics in Black popular culture. These leaders merge cultural criticism with moral and political judgment, analyzing urban youths' lived experiences and representational practices as well as analyzing counter-narrative texts in Black popular culture that have implications for urban education.…

In this critical case study, I draw on "endarkened feminist" epistemology and a legacy of "politicized womanist care" to explore how three contemporary black women educators in New York City public schools enact a spiritual and politicized care rooted in their understandings of the sociopolitical contexts where their students…