Mildred Boveda
Biographic Data
| ID | 1604992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mildred Boveda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mildred |
| FAMILY NAME | Boveda |
| SIGNATURE | BOVEDA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2377-5960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who raised you?”
Traditionally, the academic field of special education has resisted critical perspectives. Despite their advanced skills, epistemological approaches, and ways of knowing, special education scholars enacting qualitative inquiry have often described inadequate support from their academic community. In a parallel manner, Black mothering in historical and contemporary spaces, especially in mothering disabled children, has often been dismissed for its…
What's a Black feminist doing in a field like special education
Disparities in Teachers’ Access to Schools’ Collective Social Assets Based on Role, Race, and Poverty
A schools’ collective social assets (i.e., school culture, administrative support, and satisfied colleagues) are especially important for beginning teachers at higher risk of attrition, including special educators, teachers of color, teachers in high-poverty schools, and teachers in schools serving predominantly students of color. These teachers often report experiencing less social support than general educators, White teachers, teachers in low-…
Centering Youth of Color Activism and Knowledge in the Critical Race Theory Debates
Background/Context: Leah Boveda, a sophomore at Brown University, collaborated with her mother—Mildred Boveda, an intersectional studies scholar situated in special education and teacher education—to make sense of her high school community activism in Arizona. They retrace how Leah’s experiences eventually shaped her understandings of and participation in adult-centered conversations about critical race theory bans. This daughter–mother authorial…
FACTSHEET – Youth of Color Activism Matters in the Critical Race Theory (CRT) Debates
In this brief, the authors examine the role that racialized youth activists play in youth–adult collaborations. Attending to anti-CRT legislations, the authors offer research-informed policy recommendations to support the accurate representation of youth of color’s input
Beyond Making a Statement
In this essay, two women of Color researchers examine the intersections of race and disability and ask, “What is the power and purpose of positioning and positionality statements?” Informed by Black feminist theory, and drawing from the DisCrit tenets of intersectional oppressions, historicity, and whiteness and ability as property, the authors focus on researchers’ positioning in relation to how they engage and communicate knowledge about multip…
The Coloniality of False Racial Binaries
The racial awakening stemming from the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black police brutalities, and unaccounted hate crimes against Asian Americans has captivated the world’s attention regarding the insidious realities of white supremacy. Yet many educators’ efforts to purposefully and pedagogically work toward building multiracial coalitions have been criminalized through policies banning the use of critical race theory a…
Writing (for) our lives
In this collaborative sense-making of mentorship and interconnected guidance for education research, two Black women academics in special education offer lessons learned from their sustained dialogues with each other, other Black women, and with Black and endarkened feminists’ texts. The authors reflect on how traditional approaches to academic mentorship were, at times, incompatible with their onto-epistemic and methodological needs as researche…
Rappers’ (special) education revelations
Using methods informed by ethnomusicology, this study highlights lyrical themes in songs and visual imageries created by Black rappers who attended public schools in the United States. Our analysis reveals the anti-Blackness and ableism these artists encountered and uncovers ideologies conflating Blackness, disability, and inferiority within school-based contexts. The lyrics include rappers' autobiographical accounts, interpretations of first-per…
Disciplined to access the general education curriculum
As three teacher educators with familial ties to the Global South, but academically trained within the Global North, we adopt a de/colonial, intersectional feminist lens to analyze the “general education curriculum” in the United States. We use testimonios, each told in first-person, as entry points where we situate the entanglement of gendered, classed, linguistic, and racialized experiences with disabilities and the US academy. With an understa…
Love as De/Colonial Onto-Epistemology
Interrogating the Intersections Between General and Special Education in the History of Teacher Education Reform
This article provides an historical analysis of major reforms in teacher education, beginning in the 1970s, specifically focusing on the opportunities each reform presented to build a shared agenda across pre-service general and special education, and the constraints that operated on them. The analysis revealed the existence of several such intersections, each of which created substantive occasions for joint action across general and special educ…
Beyond Making a Statement
In this essay, two women of Color researchers examine the intersections of race and disability and ask, “What is the power and purpose of positioning and positionality statements?” Informed by Black feminist theory, and drawing from the DisCrit tenets of intersectional oppressions, historicity, and whiteness and ability as property, the authors focus on researchers’ positioning in relation to how they engage and communicate knowledge about multip…
Writing (for) our lives
In this collaborative sense-making of mentorship and interconnected guidance for education research, two Black women academics in special education offer lessons learned from their sustained dialogues with each other, other Black women, and with Black and endarkened feminists’ texts. The authors reflect on how traditional approaches to academic mentorship were, at times, incompatible with their onto-epistemic and methodological needs as researche…
Disciplined to access the general education curriculum
As three teacher educators with familial ties to the Global South, but academically trained within the Global North, we adopt a de/colonial, intersectional feminist lens to analyze the “general education curriculum” in the United States. We use testimonios, each told in first-person, as entry points where we situate the entanglement of gendered, classed, linguistic, and racialized experiences with disabilities and the US academy. With an understa…
Interrogating the Intersections Between General and Special Education in the History of Teacher Education Reform
This article provides an historical analysis of major reforms in teacher education, beginning in the 1970s, specifically focusing on the opportunities each reform presented to build a shared agenda across pre-service general and special education, and the constraints that operated on them. The analysis revealed the existence of several such intersections, each of which created substantive occasions for joint action across general and special educ…
Love as De/Colonial Onto-Epistemology
The Coloniality of False Racial Binaries
The racial awakening stemming from the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black police brutalities, and unaccounted hate crimes against Asian Americans has captivated the world’s attention regarding the insidious realities of white supremacy. Yet many educators’ efforts to purposefully and pedagogically work toward building multiracial coalitions have been criminalized through policies banning the use of critical race theory a…
Who raised you?”
Traditionally, the academic field of special education has resisted critical perspectives. Despite their advanced skills, epistemological approaches, and ways of knowing, special education scholars enacting qualitative inquiry have often described inadequate support from their academic community. In a parallel manner, Black mothering in historical and contemporary spaces, especially in mothering disabled children, has often been dismissed for its…
Rappers’ (special) education revelations
Using methods informed by ethnomusicology, this study highlights lyrical themes in songs and visual imageries created by Black rappers who attended public schools in the United States. Our analysis reveals the anti-Blackness and ableism these artists encountered and uncovers ideologies conflating Blackness, disability, and inferiority within school-based contexts. The lyrics include rappers' autobiographical accounts, interpretations of first-per…
Interrogating the Intersections Between General and Special Education in the History of Teacher Education Reform
This article provides an historical analysis of major reforms in teacher education, beginning in the 1970s, specifically focusing on the opportunities each reform presented to build a shared agenda across pre-service general and special education, and the constraints that operated on them. The analysis revealed the existence of several such intersections, each of which created substantive occasions for joint action across general and special educ…
Disciplined to access the general education curriculum
As three teacher educators with familial ties to the Global South, but academically trained within the Global North, we adopt a de/colonial, intersectional feminist lens to analyze the “general education curriculum” in the United States. We use testimonios, each told in first-person, as entry points where we situate the entanglement of gendered, classed, linguistic, and racialized experiences with disabilities and the US academy. With an understa…
Love as De/Colonial Onto-Epistemology
Writing (for) our lives
In this collaborative sense-making of mentorship and interconnected guidance for education research, two Black women academics in special education offer lessons learned from their sustained dialogues with each other, other Black women, and with Black and endarkened feminists’ texts. The authors reflect on how traditional approaches to academic mentorship were, at times, incompatible with their onto-epistemic and methodological needs as researche…
Rappers’ (special) education revelations
Using methods informed by ethnomusicology, this study highlights lyrical themes in songs and visual imageries created by Black rappers who attended public schools in the United States. Our analysis reveals the anti-Blackness and ableism these artists encountered and uncovers ideologies conflating Blackness, disability, and inferiority within school-based contexts. The lyrics include rappers' autobiographical accounts, interpretations of first-per…
The Coloniality of False Racial Binaries
The racial awakening stemming from the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black police brutalities, and unaccounted hate crimes against Asian Americans has captivated the world’s attention regarding the insidious realities of white supremacy. Yet many educators’ efforts to purposefully and pedagogically work toward building multiracial coalitions have been criminalized through policies banning the use of critical race theory a…
Disparities in Teachers’ Access to Schools’ Collective Social Assets Based on Role, Race, and Poverty
A schools’ collective social assets (i.e., school culture, administrative support, and satisfied colleagues) are especially important for beginning teachers at higher risk of attrition, including special educators, teachers of color, teachers in high-poverty schools, and teachers in schools serving predominantly students of color. These teachers often report experiencing less social support than general educators, White teachers, teachers in low-…
Centering Youth of Color Activism and Knowledge in the Critical Race Theory Debates
Background/Context: Leah Boveda, a sophomore at Brown University, collaborated with her mother—Mildred Boveda, an intersectional studies scholar situated in special education and teacher education—to make sense of her high school community activism in Arizona. They retrace how Leah’s experiences eventually shaped her understandings of and participation in adult-centered conversations about critical race theory bans. This daughter–mother authorial…
FACTSHEET – Youth of Color Activism Matters in the Critical Race Theory (CRT) Debates
In this brief, the authors examine the role that racialized youth activists play in youth–adult collaborations. Attending to anti-CRT legislations, the authors offer research-informed policy recommendations to support the accurate representation of youth of color’s input
Beyond Making a Statement
In this essay, two women of Color researchers examine the intersections of race and disability and ask, “What is the power and purpose of positioning and positionality statements?” Informed by Black feminist theory, and drawing from the DisCrit tenets of intersectional oppressions, historicity, and whiteness and ability as property, the authors focus on researchers’ positioning in relation to how they engage and communicate knowledge about multip…
Who raised you?”
Traditionally, the academic field of special education has resisted critical perspectives. Despite their advanced skills, epistemological approaches, and ways of knowing, special education scholars enacting qualitative inquiry have often described inadequate support from their academic community. In a parallel manner, Black mothering in historical and contemporary spaces, especially in mothering disabled children, has often been dismissed for its…
What's a Black feminist doing in a field like special education
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Racism (4 works)