Social justice movements, especially Black Lives Matter, inspired many writing center administrators to reflect on their commitments to antiracism and engage with antiracist professional development with their staff. However, there is continued need to study the impact antiracist professional development has on writing center consultants' ability…

In this article, the author explores the question: in what ways do multiracial boys and their mothers explain play and violence in their everyday experiences at school, home, and in their neighborhoods? The author borrows concepts from BlackCrit, Black PlayCrit, and Critical Mixed Race Studies to analyse interview data with Black mixed-race boys…

The purpose of this qualitative study aimed to explore the intersectionality for Black females through their experiences as leaders in academia. This research study was conducted to examine how four Black female leaders described the influences of race and gender on their leadership development in academia. A general qualitative approach was…

Many White educators are not aware of their White privilege, and therefore they need support in developing their White racial identity and racial awareness so that they can identify problems associated with racism and participate in conversations about race and racism with an eye towards dismantling systemic racism. Data was collected from…

The Common Core State Standards' focus on nonfiction texts has prompted middle schools to include more historical nonfiction, including books that focus on the United States' racialized past (and present) such as "We Are Not Yet Equal" by Carol Anderson (2018) and "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You" (2020) by Jason Reynolds…

In most stratification research, race is treated as a static and one-dimensional individual characteristic, though a growing literature indicates dynamic and multidimensional measures better represent experiences of racial categorization and inequality. The authors leverage such measures to explore the relationship between material hardship and…

This case study examined how eight higher education and student affairs (HESA) professionals' racial ideologies functioned in their understanding of racial conflict. Findings revealed that participants aided in delegitimizing students' perceptions of racial conflict based on their campuses' compositional diversity, history of racial conflict, and…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand better the experiences of Black women, their unique encounters caused by the intersectionality of their race and gender, and the support strategies they rely on to navigate the environment of the United States STEM field. The study's theoretical foundations were the Critical Race…

Beginning in the fall of 2017, forty-one districts and charter schools entered into three-year legal agreements with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights to reduce the racial disproportionality in their district or school's exclusionary discipline practices, specifically the overrepresentation of students of color in suspensions and…

African American women in educational leadership roles face a myriad of barriers and challenges. Black feminist theory and impostor phenomenon theory offered a potent conceptual lens for understanding the experiences of successful African American women. A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to examine and explore strategies that…

Contemporary scholars, educators, and practitioners continue to engage in robust debates about how to research and practice philosophy with children and adolescents and how to theorize its foundational concepts. With a view to promoting such scholarly argumentation, this essay considers issues addressed by Wendy Turgeon and Thomas E. Wartenberg in…

This qualitative study documents incidents of discrimination and violence among LGBTQ + youth experiencing homelessness along with their adaptation strategies. Using intersectionality theory, this analysis is based on individual interviews conducted with 17 LGBTQ + youth experiencing homelessness aged 17 to 25. According to their stories, LGBTQ +…

Literature exploring postsecondary undergraduate student experiences at the nexus of queerness, trans*ness, and Indigeneity remains relatively scant, as does scholarship taking a geospatial lens to understand the experiences of trans* collegians. Given the settler colonial history of higher education as a field and the colonial nature of the…

Guided by Hurtado et al.'s (2012) Multi-Contextual Model for Diverse Learning Environments, this qualitative case study examined Black graduate students' perceptions of a university president's responses to racialized incidents. Data were analyzed on an institutional level through institutional documents and presidential statements and…

The movie "Try Harder!" features a group of students at Lowell High School in San Francisco, California, as they navigate their elite public institution and apply to top-tier universities. A critical analysis of this film allows us to understand new trends and emerging discourses in urban cities, showing the way racialized groups are pit…