Gatekeepers and guardians of black intellectual thought: Black male teacher-coaches combating an anti-black epistemic order

DD Josiah Thomas III - Teachers College Record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context: Historical narratives and contemporary research continue to produce
scholarship on teacher-coaches through a White racial frame that both reifies a Western …

Black male teacher-coaches' utilization of Black counterpublics: The Black family, liberatory fantasy, and resisting the ontological limitation of Blackness

DJ Thomas III - Urban Education, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from a conceptual framework grounded in Black critical theories, this qualitative
case study explored the youth knowledge that two Black Male social studies teacher …

(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 …

You're nobody until somebody kills you: the ingredients of black death for social justice and D̶E̶I̶ DIE

DJ Thomas III, MW Johnson, L Clark - Race Ethnicity and Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we utilized Charles Mills' racial contract and Derrick Bell's interest-
convergence as theories to anchor our understanding of the exploitation of Black death to …

“Come as you are. We are a family.”: Examining Hip Hop, belonging, and civicness in social studies

D Hall - Theory & Research in Social Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Hip Hop is a cultural phenomenon deeply rooted in the collective knowledge and resistance
of Black and Latina/o (x) youth, who are often silenced or missing from the traditional social …

Coaching wellness, health, and success: Leveraging the potential of Black male coaches to promote positive outcomes for Black K-12 students

I Woods Jr, J Murphy, L Miller, Z Tolbert, L Graham… - 2023 - Taylor & Francis
While there are low percentages of Black males as educators, psychologists, pediatricians,
and psychiatrists, Black students are more likely to have a Black male athletic coach …

The 'absent Black father'metaphor: analyzing education's pathological pursuit of Black male surrogates

DJ Thomas III, MW Johnson… - Discourse: Studies in the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we utilize the concepts of racial knowledge and subjective understanding to
demonstrate how the metaphor of surrogacy encodes a racialized discourse via the …

Centering Black Perspectives Within the Social Studies Curriculum: Carter G. Woodson's Textbooks and the Teaching of Black Critical Patriotism

DJ Thomas III, TJ Lewis, MW Johnson - The Social Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
One justification given by social studies teachers for avoiding teaching or incorporating race
into their lessons is the absence of race from textbooks. Given that textbooks continue to …

Flirting with the fascination and fear of black boys: racial phobias and policing interracial dating in a private catholic high school

DJ Thomas III - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Black men and boys have been constructed as libidinous threats to white womanhood and
white racial purity since the sixteenth century. In the wake of the landmark Brown decision …

Development of the “Social Studies Course Engagement Scale” for Elementary School Students

E Ocakcı, O Samancı - Journal of Education and Future, 2024 - dergipark.org.tr
In this study, it is aimed to develop the “Social Studies Course Engagement Scale” to be
used for 4th grade elementary school students. Despite the critical importance of the …