(2025). My Brother's Keeper: Two Black Men Navigating the Tenure-Track Experience. Race, Ethnicity and Education, v28 n1 p95-113. This study explores the tenure-track experiences of two junior faculty Black men in higher education, while growing still remains vastly unexplored in higher education. Using an autoethnography approach with a critical race theory lens, the authors explore how race and institutional expectations shape their experiences along the primary components of the tenure process: research, teaching and service. While one author is beginning their tenure journey while the other is ending, findings highlight commonalities along teaching and service experiences are being mediated by their identities as Black men. Their research experiences are distinct from one another given the different research expectations of their respective institutions. The authors suggest recommendations for faculty, staff, and institutional leadership to support Black men who seek tenure and promotion in higher education…. [Direct]
(2022). We Are Not Who We Thought We Were: A Case Study of Race in Intercollegiate Athletics. Sport Management Education Journal, v16 n1 p105-115 Apr. The case study is guided by Bell's critical race theory as a lens for understanding racial discrimination. Critical race theory was used at a collegiate institution that served as a representation of a larger societal pattern throughout the United States. A hypothetical university was created, and scenarios were integrated based on actual events that took place at various intercollegiate institutions across the country in recent years. Ashley Miller, the athletic director at the University of Southeast Illinois, was facing an incredible challenge after a transfer football player posted allegations of racism within the University of Southeast Illinois football program. The university hired an outside law firm to investigate the climate of the football program and the athletics department as a whole. The law firm provided a report identifying specific incidents and concerns. Students will review the findings of the law firm and provide specific recommendations to the athletics… [Direct]
(2020). Latina College Students' Experiences in STEM at Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Framed within Latino Critical Race Theory. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v33 n8 p810-823. In the last 20 years, Latina undergraduate college students have increased their enrollment and degree attainment. However, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines Latinas remain highly underrepresented. The study aims to gain more insight into the roles that peers, faculty, and family play in Latina students' persistence in STEM fields at two selected Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Using Latino Critical Race Theory, Latinas reflected on their experiences in male-dominated STEM disciplines…. [Direct]
(2024). Using Critical Race Mixed Methodology to Explore African American College Students' Experiences with Racial Microaggressions. Innovative Higher Education, v49 n6 p1077-1103. There is a dearth of social justice or critical mixed methods research approaches, particularly in higher education. Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) is a type of critical mixed methods research that combines Critical Race Theory (CRT) and mixed methods research (DeCuir-Gunby in "Educational Psychologist" 55, 244-255, 2020). However, there are limited examples of CRMM within higher education research (Johnson & Strayhorn in "Journal of Diversity in Higher Education" 16, 539-553, 2023). Our study further operationalizes CRMM through the explication of an explanatory sequential mixed methods exploration of African American college students' experiences with racial microaggressions, where the qualitative findings are used to expand upon the quantitative findings (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2017). The study uses Critical Race Theory (Bell, 1992; Ladson-Billings & Tate in "Teachers College Record" 97, 47-68, 1995; Sol√≥rzano & Huber, 2020)… [Direct]
(2023). Reimagining Education Away from the Merry-Go-Round. Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v59 n2 p206-220. In the face of COVID-19, our educational institutions shuttered their doors, moved curricula online, loosened regulations, and reimagined student engagement. Almost as quickly, society reverted to an eagerness for normality as we devolved into anti-Critical Race Theory rallies, anti-mask board meetings, and protests. In this essay, we situate education with a merry-go-round motif, and we situate the efforts we have taken toward true change on a continuum converging toward, or moving against, the "hard reset."… [Direct]
(2024). DisCrit Mothering as a Radical Act. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n9 p2493-2506. Influenced by revolutionary mothering, activists of color, and radical feminists, this article explores Neurodivergent families through the lens of Disability Critical Race Theory. As a parent of an Autistic child, I embark on redefining my role by integrating art and design into community advocacy for Autistic communities. I challenge unjust stigmas by breaking visual cycles within social and clinical practices. This journey culminated in the creation of "KnoxRoxs," a photo zine dedicated to my Autistic son, aimed at increasing visibility for children of color in Neurodiverse communities. I emphasize the multifaceted nature of Neurodivergent mothering, involving caregiving, community engagement, and creative resistance…. [Direct]
(2018). Where Are We? Critical Race Theory in Education 20 Years Later. Peabody Journal of Education, v93 n1 p121-131. This article explores the territory that has been covered since the publication of Ladson-Billings and Tate's 1995 article, "Toward a Critical Race Theory in Education." We organize our review of the CRT literature around what we are calling CRT "boundaries." We identify six boundaries for CRT and education: 1) CRT in education argues that racial inequity in education is the logical outcome of a system of achievement presided on competition; 2) CRT in education examines the role of education policy and educational practices in the construction of racial inequity and the perpetuation of normative whiteness; 3) CRT in education rejects the dominant narrative about the inherent inferiority of people of color and the normative superiority of white people; 4) CRT in education rejects ahistoricism and examines the historical linkages between contemporary educational inequity and historical patterns of racial oppression; 5) CRT in education engages in intersectional… [Direct]
(2020). Chapter 9: Applying Critical Race Theory as a Tool for Examining the Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth. Teachers College Record, v122 n13. Background/Context: There is a growing body of literature about the educational experiences of students who are African immigrants in U.S. schools. This study looks closely at a Ugandan immigrant's educational experiences in the U.S. as well as the laws and policies that preempted her education. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of this study is to examine the disconnect between the rhetoric and practice of second language/bilingual laws in one school district in a Midwestern state, with regard to the experiences of an African immigrant whose has a diverse linguistic background. Research Design: This study is crafted through a critical race theory lens and applies critical policy analysis to understand current practices. Using autoethnography, we provide a first-person reflection on the lived experiences of a young African immigrant student and her family. Then, drawing on critical race theory in concert with critical policy analysis, we examine the… [Direct]
(2023). Expanding the Reasons We Give: Black Parents' Collective Engagement as Resisting White Supremacy at School. Harvard Educational Review, v93 n4 p533-555. In this article, Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert draws attention to Black parents' collective school engagement. Applying critical race theory's critique of liberalism as a theoretical frame, she argues that Black parents who participated in her qualitative multicase study resisted white supremacy as they engaged for the collective in everyday school involvement, school and extracurricular choices, and parent groups. She concludes by urging family-school partnership scholars, policy makers, and school leader and teacher educators to embrace collective engagement for its contributions to educational justice…. [Direct]
(2020). Using Critical Race Theory to Examine How Predominantly White Land-Grant Universities Utilize Chief Diversity Officers. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University. Racial tension in the United States has moved to the forefront in social discourse with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and elections of far-right wing politicians who provide support and empathy for White supremacist groups. In higher education, colleges and universities often serve as microcosms of the broader society's racial climate. Experts have revealed that 56% of U.S. university presidents believed that inclusion and diversity had grown in importance between 2015-2017. Additionally, 47% of presidents at 4-year institutions stated that students had organized on their campus amid concerns about racial diversity. In attempts to combat the divisiveness present in American culture, colleges and universities have begun appointing Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) administrative positions to lead their inclusion and diversity missions to better support minoritized and marginalized communities. Experts estimate that nearly 80% of CDO positions were created in the last 20… [Direct]
(2022). Black Male College Students' Lived Experiences with Racial Microaggressions. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Grand Canyon University. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of black male college students' incidents with racial microaggression in central North Carolina. The phenomenon being studied in this research was the lived experiences of black male college students with racial microaggression. A qualitative methodology was the selected method for this study. A phenomenological descriptive design was used for this study. The theoretical framework for this study was the critical race theory. The critical race theory guided the research by helping the researcher evaluate how racial microaggression perpetuates educational disparities among the student body. The research questions in this study were, RQ1: How do black male college students describe their experience of racial microaggression? RQ2: What are the key constituents of the general structure of black male lived experiences with racial microaggression? The target population was black male college… [Direct]
(2017). Critical Race Theory and the Whiteness of Teacher Education. Urban Education, v52 n2 p155-169 Feb. This article uses three tenets of critical race theory to critique the common pattern of teacher education focusing on preparing predominantly White cohorts of teacher candidates for racially and ethnically diverse students. The tenet of interest convergence asks how White interests are served through incremental steps. The tenet of color blindness prompts asking how structures that seem neutral, such as teacher testing, reinforce Whiteness and White interests. The tenet of experiential knowledge prompts asking whose voices are being heard. The article argues that much about teacher education can be changed, offering suggestions that derive from these tenets…. [Direct]
(2024). Race, Education and #BlackLivesMatter: How Online Transformational Resistance Shapes the Offline Experiences of Black College-Age Women. Urban Education, v59 n7 p2179-2207. Grounded in critical race theory and a burgeoning field of Black feminist technology studies, this article takes a techno-structural approach to understanding the promise and peril of internet technology to support activism, transformational resistance and counter-storytelling for Black college-agewomen. Qualitative interviews with 17 Black undergraduate women reveal multiple benefits of leveraging social media for racial justice, as well as the socioemotional and academic consequences of algorithmic racism. These findings support the need to develop new conceptual frameworks that can foster students' sociotechnical consciousness, and further equip them with the critical race techno-literacies needed to disrupt anti-Blackness both on and offline…. [Direct]
(2024). (Re)constructing a Border Pedagogy: Centering the Borderlands in Latinx Teacher Education. Journal of Latinos and Education, v23 n3 p924-932. As teacher educators on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, our goal is to (re)conceptualize a pedagogical approach for bilingual teacher development informed by teacher education research in the borderlands and anchored in the myriad of historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and linguistic realities of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands — a border pedagogy. Our (re)conceptualization is based on a metasynthesis of bilingual teacher education research from the four U.S.-Mexico border states and additionally draws from critical race theory in education and border theory scholarship to examine the geopolitical context of the borderlands as impacted by colonization and whiteness. Principles for (bilingual) teacher development and design are discussed…. [Direct]
(2020). The College Access and Choice Processes of High-Achieving African American Students: A Critical Race Theory Analysis. American Educational Research Journal, v57 n1 p411-439 Feb. This study explored the college access and choice processes of high-achieving African American students who were admitted to University of California (UC) campuses but elected to enroll elsewhere. Employing critical race theory as an interpretive framework, the study found that many of these students were denied access to their priority UC campuses and were cascaded down to the least selective campuses. A small portion were not admitted to flagship UCs–Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego–but were admitted to elite non-UC institutions. Moreover, these students decided to attend selective colleges and universities that demonstrated a commitment to admitting and financially supporting them. This study also discovered that these high-achieving students researched and experienced a range of racial climate issues at UC campuses, including racist activities and lack of compositional diversity, which contributed to their decisions not to enroll. The article includes recommendations for UC… [Direct]