It will take nations of billions to obstruct our dreams: extending BlackCrit through Afrofuturism

SR Toliver - Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further theorize BlackCrit to include a deeper focus
on the framing idea of Black liberatory fantasy via Afrofuturism. Design/methodology …

(Un) natural saviors and motivators: Analyzing the pathological scripting of Black male teachers in Hollywood films

D Thomas III, M Johnson, A Brown - Educational Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores how Black male teachers in Hollywood films continue to be encoded
with meanings derived from deficit social science discourse generated through a white …

“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education

MW Johnson - Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study set out to gain a deeper understanding of how early childhood students,
specifically Black boys in first and second grade, would respond to the teaching of historical …

The Good Cops, Bad Cops, Bullets, and Wounds: Toward Culturally Sustaining Prison Abolition Literacies in Early Childhood Education

R McMillan, N Bryan - Reading Research Quarterly, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Dominant discourses on the prison industrial complex/mass incarceration tend to prioritize
the experiences of Black adults. However, Black children are dual victims of the prison …

'For a good [civic] purpose?': Black immortal teachings of citizenship

MW Johnson, D Thomas III - Education, Citizenship and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Black experiences and discourse concerning citizenship are unique. Moreover, Black
access to full citizenship is often a matter of life and death. The civic purposes driving this …

Black male brilliance as (ill) legible: Challenging and changing societal and educational narratives

MP Smith, MW Johnson, L Owens - Urban Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we examine how race and racism impact the schooling of African American
males by analyzing the first-person perspective of hip-hop superstar, Nasir “Nas” Jones. We …

A doctorate doesn't make you a “Doc”: the educational and sociocultural embodiment of culturally relevant pedagogies

MW Johnson, A Johnson, L Clark, JE Howe… - Journal for …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to stimulate scholarly attention and practical application pertaining
to individuals recognized as “Docs.” Through conducting a comprehensive analysis and …

Black teachers in white spaces: Rupturing reproductions of Anti-Blackness in preservice social studies education

A Wilson, R McMillian - Theory & Research in Social Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While states, educational agencies, and colleges of education across the United States seek
to recruit more Black social studies teachers, the authors of this study—two former social …

'Well, they do have a good point': contextualising the Colin Kaepernick protest using counternarratives with US elementary students

MW Johnson - Education 3-13, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research has shown that classroom instruction can be precarious when addressing
potentially 'controversial'issues. Yet, students can benefit from examining the narratives of …

Curriculum and training analysis of the music degrees in Colombia

O Lorenzo Quiles, RN Cárdenas Soler… - … Journal of Music …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to carry out a global evaluation of 13 Music Education Bachelor Degrees
from Colombia, academic programs focused on the higher training of music teachers in this …