Justin A Coles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1606133 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Justin A Coles |
| NOMBRES | Justin A |
| APELLIDO | Coles |
| FIRMA | COLES J A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6232-8939 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Playing in the Dark ? Blackness, Humanity, and Studies of Black Life in Education 2012–2022
The series of high-profile Black deaths in the United States between 2012–2022 (e.g., Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor) mark an important turning point in studies of Black life in education. The increasing use of anti-Blackness theorizing coupled with the introduction of Black critical theory (BlackCrit) to the field of education has inspired new research investigations aiming to understand anti-Black racial harm more precisely. Grow…
Engaging Black Educational Consciousness
Using a youth-centered approach to urban teacher education, the authors present data from two qualitative studies investigating Black youth’s critical literacy practices to understand Blackness, antiblackness, and curriculum in U.S. schools. These studies explore how youth from schools identified as “urban” geographically and ideologically use a Black educational consciousness—an awareness of Black education's historical and contemporary realitie…
Deepening Black Celebration and Life in a Dying Empire
Dear Black People (and the people who love them),How do you breathe when living in and through a landscape that treats your need to breathe not as a fundamental necessity of human existence, but as
Black indigenous and people of color arts as a premise of/for methodological theories of justice
(Re)turn Us to Our Names
”Return her to her name, which is her home. Can you not hear that? Her name is Home. She should be there inside her name.”-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned, p. 75In our final editorial we, as co-edi
In Dialogue
With funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Marva Cappello, Jennifer D. Turner, and Angela M. Wiseman convened a group of critical multimodal scholars in April 2022 to initiate a national agenda that prioritizes the use of visual and multimodal methodologies to promote educational equity and racial justice for youth of color. Our conference gathering included Reka Barton, Darielle Blevins, Justin Coles, Autumn A. Griff…
Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives
Antiblackness, and the dominant stories it produces about Black humanity, creates distorted images of Black humanness that are used to justify violence against Black youth in schools and society. However, Black youth have different stories to tell about their being in the world that stems directly from their lived experiences and are inherently counter to damaged center narratives intertwined with Black suffering. Using the theoretical framing of…
A BlackCrit Re/Imagining of Urban Schooling Social Education Through Black Youth Enactments of Black Storywork
This article highlights the organizing role of Blackness and anti-Blackness in the social worlds of nine Black adolescents at an urban high school. Outside and within urban schooling, Black youth understand that anti-Blackness prompts the negotiation of two distinct social worlds—Black and non-Black—however, urban schooling invisibilizes this distinction. Based on a yearlong BlackCrit ethnography, I analyze three scripts of participants’ dialogic…
How to Tame an Imaginary Border
A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants—G
Wading through coloniality
For Examining Power Through Community in the Era of Ongoing Pandemics
Any gains in social justice and racial equity have been and continue to be catalyzed by the collective power of oppressed communities. Among the most prolific models of power through community (edu
Pedagogies of Care, Dignity, Love, and Respect
Fugitivity and Abolition in Educational Research and Practice
Ooh childThings are gonna get easierOoh childThings’ll get brighterSome day, yeahWe’ll put it together and we’ll get it undoneSome dayWhen your head is much lighterSome day, yeahWe’ll walk in the r
Call Us by Our Names
(2021). Call Us by Our Names: A Kitchen-Table Dialogue on Doin' It for the Culture. Equity & Excellence in Education: Vol. 54, For the Culture: (Re)Defining the Future of Equity & Excellence in Education, pp. 1-18
Black desire
Through the conception of Black desire, a Black-specific rendering of Eve Tuck’s researching for desire, I argue that educational research lacking critiques of antiblackness can cultivate damage-centered narratives that misguidedly identify brokenness in Black youth, rather than brokenness in society. Drawing from a yearlong critical race ethnography, rooted in BlackCrit, I demonstrate how four Black high school students’ critical engagements wit…
Storytellin’ by the light of the lantern
(2021). Storytellin' by the light of the lantern: A polyvocal dialogue turnin' towards critical Black curriculum studies. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 51, Curricular Confrontations in the Wake of Anti-Blackness and the Break of Black Possibilities, pp. 15-34
It’s really geniuses that live in the hood”
Curriculum within the US was birthed in a context of antiblackness and continues to operate as anti-Black through imagining Black youth as less than and uneducable. However, despite the ways educational space has historically worked to image Black children and communities through deficit lenses, the creation of non-traditional Black curricular spaces has long served as a strategy of resistance. In this paper, I examine the ways Black urban youth …
Trading Spaces
Antiblackness, or the socially constructed rendering of Black bodies as inhuman, disposable, and inherently problematic, is the legacy of chattel slavery in the U.S. This article explores the visionary possibility of learning to recognize, honor and steward Black Education Spaces (BES). BES might be considered physical locations, cultural practices, traditions, and opportunities for black students and educators to: (a) heal from the racialized as…
The second ID
Although campus racial climate on colleges and universities has been scrutinized in research on higher education, scholarship focused on Black male collegians’ interactions with campus police remains limited. Considering how the logics of white supremacy and anti-Black racism have characterized policing across the nation, we assert that a critical examination of how those practices are mirrored on college campuses can illuminate the challenges Bl…
We still here’
While research has called attention to the phenomena of a link between school and prison for many Black students in the United States, there has been much less examination of the direct impact to Black families, in this case Black mothers. This paper seeks to center the stories of Black mothers to provide a specific type of sense making around Black children and school suspensions that often goes unheard in educational research and the broader te…
Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms
Race-focused teacher education has centered on changing preservice teachers' racial beliefs and attitudes. In this article, we build on this work by exploring how preservice teachers identify and address issues of race and racism in the everyday work of teaching and learning. To conceptualize these processes, we propose the theoretical framework of "racial noticing," which extends the literature on teacher noticing to the consideration of racial …
A BlackCrit analysis on Black urban youth and suspension disproportionality as anti-Black symbolic violence
Through an analysis of Black urban high school youth’s critical engagements with literacy, the authors examine school suspensions–particularly disproportionality–as anti-Black symbolic violence. By historically mapping the terrain of discipline, from chattel slavery to The New Jim Crow, the article unearths the connection between racial disproportionality in school discipline and the micro-level context of systemic societal Black exclusion. Gathe…
A BlackCrit analysis on Black urban youth and suspension disproportionality as anti-Black symbolic violence
Through an analysis of Black urban high school youth’s critical engagements with literacy, the authors examine school suspensions–particularly disproportionality–as anti-Black symbolic violence. By historically mapping the terrain of discipline, from chattel slavery to The New Jim Crow, the article unearths the connection between racial disproportionality in school discipline and the micro-level context of systemic societal Black exclusion. Gathe…
A BlackCrit Re/Imagining of Urban Schooling Social Education Through Black Youth Enactments of Black Storywork
This article highlights the organizing role of Blackness and anti-Blackness in the social worlds of nine Black adolescents at an urban high school. Outside and within urban schooling, Black youth understand that anti-Blackness prompts the negotiation of two distinct social worlds—Black and non-Black—however, urban schooling invisibilizes this distinction. Based on a yearlong BlackCrit ethnography, I analyze three scripts of participants’ dialogic…
It’s really geniuses that live in the hood”
Curriculum within the US was birthed in a context of antiblackness and continues to operate as anti-Black through imagining Black youth as less than and uneducable. However, despite the ways educational space has historically worked to image Black children and communities through deficit lenses, the creation of non-traditional Black curricular spaces has long served as a strategy of resistance. In this paper, I examine the ways Black urban youth …
Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms
Race-focused teacher education has centered on changing preservice teachers' racial beliefs and attitudes. In this article, we build on this work by exploring how preservice teachers identify and address issues of race and racism in the everyday work of teaching and learning. To conceptualize these processes, we propose the theoretical framework of "racial noticing," which extends the literature on teacher noticing to the consideration of racial …
The second ID
Although campus racial climate on colleges and universities has been scrutinized in research on higher education, scholarship focused on Black male collegians’ interactions with campus police remains limited. Considering how the logics of white supremacy and anti-Black racism have characterized policing across the nation, we assert that a critical examination of how those practices are mirrored on college campuses can illuminate the challenges Bl…
We still here’
While research has called attention to the phenomena of a link between school and prison for many Black students in the United States, there has been much less examination of the direct impact to Black families, in this case Black mothers. This paper seeks to center the stories of Black mothers to provide a specific type of sense making around Black children and school suspensions that often goes unheard in educational research and the broader te…
Black desire
Through the conception of Black desire, a Black-specific rendering of Eve Tuck’s researching for desire, I argue that educational research lacking critiques of antiblackness can cultivate damage-centered narratives that misguidedly identify brokenness in Black youth, rather than brokenness in society. Drawing from a yearlong critical race ethnography, rooted in BlackCrit, I demonstrate how four Black high school students’ critical engagements wit…
Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives
Antiblackness, and the dominant stories it produces about Black humanity, creates distorted images of Black humanness that are used to justify violence against Black youth in schools and society. However, Black youth have different stories to tell about their being in the world that stems directly from their lived experiences and are inherently counter to damaged center narratives intertwined with Black suffering. Using the theoretical framing of…
Black indigenous and people of color arts as a premise of/for methodological theories of justice
Storytellin’ by the light of the lantern
(2021). Storytellin' by the light of the lantern: A polyvocal dialogue turnin' towards critical Black curriculum studies. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 51, Curricular Confrontations in the Wake of Anti-Blackness and the Break of Black Possibilities, pp. 15-34
A BlackCrit analysis on Black urban youth and suspension disproportionality as anti-Black symbolic violence
Through an analysis of Black urban high school youth’s critical engagements with literacy, the authors examine school suspensions–particularly disproportionality–as anti-Black symbolic violence. By historically mapping the terrain of discipline, from chattel slavery to The New Jim Crow, the article unearths the connection between racial disproportionality in school discipline and the micro-level context of systemic societal Black exclusion. Gathe…
Trading Spaces
Antiblackness, or the socially constructed rendering of Black bodies as inhuman, disposable, and inherently problematic, is the legacy of chattel slavery in the U.S. This article explores the visionary possibility of learning to recognize, honor and steward Black Education Spaces (BES). BES might be considered physical locations, cultural practices, traditions, and opportunities for black students and educators to: (a) heal from the racialized as…
The second ID
Although campus racial climate on colleges and universities has been scrutinized in research on higher education, scholarship focused on Black male collegians’ interactions with campus police remains limited. Considering how the logics of white supremacy and anti-Black racism have characterized policing across the nation, we assert that a critical examination of how those practices are mirrored on college campuses can illuminate the challenges Bl…
We still here’
While research has called attention to the phenomena of a link between school and prison for many Black students in the United States, there has been much less examination of the direct impact to Black families, in this case Black mothers. This paper seeks to center the stories of Black mothers to provide a specific type of sense making around Black children and school suspensions that often goes unheard in educational research and the broader te…
Preparing Teachers to Notice Race in Classrooms
Race-focused teacher education has centered on changing preservice teachers' racial beliefs and attitudes. In this article, we build on this work by exploring how preservice teachers identify and address issues of race and racism in the everyday work of teaching and learning. To conceptualize these processes, we propose the theoretical framework of "racial noticing," which extends the literature on teacher noticing to the consideration of racial …
Pedagogies of Care, Dignity, Love, and Respect
Fugitivity and Abolition in Educational Research and Practice
Ooh childThings are gonna get easierOoh childThings’ll get brighterSome day, yeahWe’ll put it together and we’ll get it undoneSome dayWhen your head is much lighterSome day, yeahWe’ll walk in the r
Call Us by Our Names
(2021). Call Us by Our Names: A Kitchen-Table Dialogue on Doin' It for the Culture. Equity & Excellence in Education: Vol. 54, For the Culture: (Re)Defining the Future of Equity & Excellence in Education, pp. 1-18
Black desire
Through the conception of Black desire, a Black-specific rendering of Eve Tuck’s researching for desire, I argue that educational research lacking critiques of antiblackness can cultivate damage-centered narratives that misguidedly identify brokenness in Black youth, rather than brokenness in society. Drawing from a yearlong critical race ethnography, rooted in BlackCrit, I demonstrate how four Black high school students’ critical engagements wit…
Storytellin’ by the light of the lantern
(2021). Storytellin' by the light of the lantern: A polyvocal dialogue turnin' towards critical Black curriculum studies. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 51, Curricular Confrontations in the Wake of Anti-Blackness and the Break of Black Possibilities, pp. 15-34
It’s really geniuses that live in the hood”
Curriculum within the US was birthed in a context of antiblackness and continues to operate as anti-Black through imagining Black youth as less than and uneducable. However, despite the ways educational space has historically worked to image Black children and communities through deficit lenses, the creation of non-traditional Black curricular spaces has long served as a strategy of resistance. In this paper, I examine the ways Black urban youth …
How to Tame an Imaginary Border
A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants—G
Wading through coloniality
For Examining Power Through Community in the Era of Ongoing Pandemics
Any gains in social justice and racial equity have been and continue to be catalyzed by the collective power of oppressed communities. Among the most prolific models of power through community (edu
(Re)turn Us to Our Names
”Return her to her name, which is her home. Can you not hear that? Her name is Home. She should be there inside her name.”-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned, p. 75In our final editorial we, as co-edi
In Dialogue
With funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Marva Cappello, Jennifer D. Turner, and Angela M. Wiseman convened a group of critical multimodal scholars in April 2022 to initiate a national agenda that prioritizes the use of visual and multimodal methodologies to promote educational equity and racial justice for youth of color. Our conference gathering included Reka Barton, Darielle Blevins, Justin Coles, Autumn A. Griff…
Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives
Antiblackness, and the dominant stories it produces about Black humanity, creates distorted images of Black humanness that are used to justify violence against Black youth in schools and society. However, Black youth have different stories to tell about their being in the world that stems directly from their lived experiences and are inherently counter to damaged center narratives intertwined with Black suffering. Using the theoretical framing of…
A BlackCrit Re/Imagining of Urban Schooling Social Education Through Black Youth Enactments of Black Storywork
This article highlights the organizing role of Blackness and anti-Blackness in the social worlds of nine Black adolescents at an urban high school. Outside and within urban schooling, Black youth understand that anti-Blackness prompts the negotiation of two distinct social worlds—Black and non-Black—however, urban schooling invisibilizes this distinction. Based on a yearlong BlackCrit ethnography, I analyze three scripts of participants’ dialogic…
Black indigenous and people of color arts as a premise of/for methodological theories of justice
Deepening Black Celebration and Life in a Dying Empire
Dear Black People (and the people who love them),How do you breathe when living in and through a landscape that treats your need to breathe not as a fundamental necessity of human existence, but as
Playing in the Dark ? Blackness, Humanity, and Studies of Black Life in Education 2012–2022
The series of high-profile Black deaths in the United States between 2012–2022 (e.g., Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor) mark an important turning point in studies of Black life in education. The increasing use of anti-Blackness theorizing coupled with the introduction of Black critical theory (BlackCrit) to the field of education has inspired new research investigations aiming to understand anti-Black racial harm more precisely. Grow…
Engaging Black Educational Consciousness
Using a youth-centered approach to urban teacher education, the authors present data from two qualitative studies investigating Black youth’s critical literacy practices to understand Blackness, antiblackness, and curriculum in U.S. schools. These studies explore how youth from schools identified as “urban” geographically and ideologically use a Black educational consciousness—an awareness of Black education's historical and contemporary realitie…
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