An advisor is often the most central and influential person influencing Black women's trajectory throughout graduate school. This study explored how and why Black women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs selected their advisors and their perceptions of the advisor/advisee relationship. Black Feminist…

Sentimentalism as a genre is known for its association with melodramatic 19th-century novels, such as Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or Alcott's "Little Women." But, as a cultural tendency, sentimentalism can be found in a range of 19th- and 20th-century cultural, social, and political phenomena, with philanthropic and educational…

This article offers a critical review of the literature on how race played into the historical development of pedagogical progressivism in the late-19th and early-20th-century United States. While many historians have focused on the overt/covert racism inherent in much of progressive pedagogy as espoused by White educators, others have highlighted…

Author and education expert Vanessa Siddle Walker discusses the historical significance of desegregation, specifically looking at the way, prior to the "Brown vs. The Board of Education" ruling, that black educators worked to create an aspirational environment for their students and toiled behind the scenes to gain them access and…

This paper explores trends in summer and intermittent teaching practices among African American students in the post-Civil War South, focusing on student activities in the field, the institutions they attended, and the communities they served. Transitioning out of the restrictions and impoverishment of slavery while simultaneously seeking to…

In this critical reflective analysis, we explore the nature of schooling for Black children and youth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and envision its transformative possibilities. We draw from Black intellectual thought around antiblackness, Black joy, and Brown's humanizing critical sociocultural knowledge to interrogate our own pandemic…

It is well demonstrated that basic needs insecurities (i.e., food insecurity, housing insecurity, or homelessness) are more pronounced among certain groups of historically marginalized students, including students of color at traditionally under-resourced Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCUs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs),…

This article examines Black parents' efforts to establish and secure quality education for their children in antebellum Boston, Massachusetts. It situates the African School, a Black-owned cultural institution, within Black nationalist politics and reveals how the schoolhouse became a site of political tension between Black Bostonians and the…

This conceptual article aims to clarify the important relationship between the fields of social foundations of education (SFE) and urban education (UE). We argue that SFE (a) enables more precise understandings of "urban" in one's preparation to practice in or conduct research with implications for urban schooling contexts and (b)…

Building on the work of sociologist Arlie Hochschild (1979, 1983), studies have shown that Black people and other people of color engage in more emotion work than their White counterparts in predominantly White settings (Wingfield 2010, 2019). Although we know much about the way in which emotion work is gendered and how emotion work can be…

Through an ethnographic case study within one struggling Afrocentric public charter school in the Mid-Atlantic from 2009 to 2011, I show how broader neoliberal reforms and an incomplete attempt at Afrocentric education combined to redefine Blackness as poverty, danger, and failure through the co-optation of school-based practices. Using a Critical…

This study examines the capital identity projection (CIP) phenomena and the extent to which the presentation of "economic success" in historically Black college and university (HBCU) students contributes to their academic performance (students' self-reported grade point average [GPA]). The present study adds to the literature by…

The intent of this article is to present four historical physical education teacher educators as role models for intellectuals in academia and in particular, Black scholars in teacher education. Utilizing the concepts of archetype and critical race currere, we frame the lifeworks of E.B. Henderson, Anita J. Turner, LeRoy T. Walker, and Lavonia…

With an alchemical verve, educators have been shaping the very direction of students' lives since time immemorial. With millions of teachers currently serving in the Tk-12 sector and millions more serving in higher education spaces, the need for quality educator development is essential. For Tk-12 educators, while there are teacher preparation…

The narrative woven throughout this article elevates the persistence, perseverance, resilience, and resolve of a neighborhood anchored in faith, and fiercely devoted to its children. Contextualized through its rich history of mobilization for social justice, this story uplifts and defends the cultural wealth of a historically marginalized…