Bryan, N. (2020). Remembering Tamir Rice and Other Black Boy Victims: Imagining Black PlayCrit Literacies Inside and Outside Urban Literacy Education. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085920902250 Building on Critical Race Theory, Black Critical Theory in education (BlackCrit), and Black Male Studies (BMS), the author theorizes what he terms Black PlayCrit and, by extension, Black PlayCrit Literacies.… read more
Race and Education (RE)
Tangling With Race and Racism in Teacher Education: Designs for Counterstory-Based Parent Teacher Conferences
Goldin, S., Khasnabis, D., O’Connor, C., & Hearn, K. (2019). Tangling With Race and Racism in Teacher Education: Designs for Counterstory-Based Parent Teacher Conferences. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919894042 Our research is guided by the aim to use counterstories pedagogically in teacher education. We report on counterstory-based parent teacher conference simulations, where composite… read more
Bias or Empathy in Universal Screening? The Effect of Teacher–Student Racial Matching on Teacher Perceptions of Student Behavior
Weathers, E. S. (2019). Bias or Empathy in Universal Screening? The Effect of Teacher-Student Racial Matching on Teacher Perceptions of Student Behavior. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919873691 This study uses linear probability models with student and teacher fixed effects to assess whether the racial match between teachers and students affects “at-risk” ratings… read more
A Tale of Racial Fortuity: Interrogating the Silent Covenants of a High School’s Definition of Success for Youth of Color
Salisbury, J. (2019). “A Tale of Racial Fortuity: Interrogating the Silent Covenants of a High School’s Definition of Success for Youth of Color,” American Journal of Education https://doi.org/10.1086/706923 This qualitative case study employing a critical race theory methodology uses Derrick Bell’s conceptualization of racial fortuity to examine the ways… read more