Laura Krystal Porterfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 235386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Krystal Porterfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Krystal |
| FAMILY NAME | Porterfield |
| SIGNATURE | PORTERFIELD L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3052-9007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth Tellers
This paper highlights the value of the photovoice method for creating affinity spaces, crafting counterstories, and informing retention practices for urban teachers of Color. The research team, together with an affinity group of teachers of Color, used photographic images to foster a deeper understanding of the question, “What does it mean to be a teacher of Color in today's schools?” The images serve as the foundation for counterstories that spe…
Counterstories of teachers of color
Black Girls Seeing Urban Schools
Joining the chorus of Black/Critical Race Feminist scholarship in education, this article explores how both affect and visuality inform understandings of safety for Black girls in schools. Using participatory visual ethnography, I explore how five young Black women at a Philadelphia magnet school conceptualize safety as an affective achievement of visionary school design. I argue that any attempt to address safety for Black girls in urban schools…
We Can't Go On Like This
In this visual nkwaethnographic (Allen-Handy 2022) origin story and reflection, I introduce and reflect on the genesis of the Seeing Wellness Project using photovoice. The Seeing Wellness Project is a participatory visual ethnography that explores the transformative self-care, wellness, and healing practices of self-identified transgender, women, and gender nonconforming Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) who are diversity and ju…
What is the truth
This article investigates the pedagogical power of teaching and learning alongside Octavia Butler's Kindred. I examine the stories of students enrolled in a special topics undergraduate honors seminar centered on personal discovery, race, and family using grounded theory and narrative textual analysis. Students' narratives reveal the ways Kindred and science fiction more generally offer opportunities for substantive culturally disruptive pedagogy…
(Re)Seeing Black girls
This article analyses the race and gender norms embedded in the verbal and visual discourse at an internationally acclaimed secondary magnet school in Philadelphia. While scholars have documented the visual learning of adolescents and elementary school-aged youth of colour extensively, few have focused exclusively on the nature of visual learning for young Black women in and around urban schools. The nature of looking and the visual is a highly c…
Slaves waiting for sale
by Maurie D. McInnis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 280 pages ISBN: 978-0-2265-5933-9 (hardback) Price $40.00 Reviewed by Laura Krystal Porterfield, Temple University Slaves Waiting fo
Slaves waiting for sale
by Maurie D. McInnis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 280 pages ISBN: 978-0-2265-5933-9 (hardback) Price $40.00 Reviewed by Laura Krystal Porterfield, Temple University Slaves Waiting fo
Truth Tellers
This paper highlights the value of the photovoice method for creating affinity spaces, crafting counterstories, and informing retention practices for urban teachers of Color. The research team, together with an affinity group of teachers of Color, used photographic images to foster a deeper understanding of the question, “What does it mean to be a teacher of Color in today's schools?” The images serve as the foundation for counterstories that spe…
Counterstories of teachers of color
Black Girls Seeing Urban Schools
Joining the chorus of Black/Critical Race Feminist scholarship in education, this article explores how both affect and visuality inform understandings of safety for Black girls in schools. Using participatory visual ethnography, I explore how five young Black women at a Philadelphia magnet school conceptualize safety as an affective achievement of visionary school design. I argue that any attempt to address safety for Black girls in urban schools…
What is the truth
This article investigates the pedagogical power of teaching and learning alongside Octavia Butler's Kindred. I examine the stories of students enrolled in a special topics undergraduate honors seminar centered on personal discovery, race, and family using grounded theory and narrative textual analysis. Students' narratives reveal the ways Kindred and science fiction more generally offer opportunities for substantive culturally disruptive pedagogy…
Slaves waiting for sale
by Maurie D. McInnis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 280 pages ISBN: 978-0-2265-5933-9 (hardback) Price $40.00 Reviewed by Laura Krystal Porterfield, Temple University Slaves Waiting fo
(Re)Seeing Black girls
This article analyses the race and gender norms embedded in the verbal and visual discourse at an internationally acclaimed secondary magnet school in Philadelphia. While scholars have documented the visual learning of adolescents and elementary school-aged youth of colour extensively, few have focused exclusively on the nature of visual learning for young Black women in and around urban schools. The nature of looking and the visual is a highly c…
We Can't Go On Like This
In this visual nkwaethnographic (Allen-Handy 2022) origin story and reflection, I introduce and reflect on the genesis of the Seeing Wellness Project using photovoice. The Seeing Wellness Project is a participatory visual ethnography that explores the transformative self-care, wellness, and healing practices of self-identified transgender, women, and gender nonconforming Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) who are diversity and ju…
What is the truth
This article investigates the pedagogical power of teaching and learning alongside Octavia Butler's Kindred. I examine the stories of students enrolled in a special topics undergraduate honors seminar centered on personal discovery, race, and family using grounded theory and narrative textual analysis. Students' narratives reveal the ways Kindred and science fiction more generally offer opportunities for substantive culturally disruptive pedagogy…
Counterstories of teachers of color
Black Girls Seeing Urban Schools
Joining the chorus of Black/Critical Race Feminist scholarship in education, this article explores how both affect and visuality inform understandings of safety for Black girls in schools. Using participatory visual ethnography, I explore how five young Black women at a Philadelphia magnet school conceptualize safety as an affective achievement of visionary school design. I argue that any attempt to address safety for Black girls in urban schools…
Truth Tellers
This paper highlights the value of the photovoice method for creating affinity spaces, crafting counterstories, and informing retention practices for urban teachers of Color. The research team, together with an affinity group of teachers of Color, used photographic images to foster a deeper understanding of the question, “What does it mean to be a teacher of Color in today's schools?” The images serve as the foundation for counterstories that spe…
Sociology (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works)