Veronica A Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 2962394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica A Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1683-2808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Legal Logic of Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Policymakers’ Rhetoric in CRT Legislation
“The House Is on Fire”: A Critical Analysis of Anti-CRT Bans and Faculty Experiences
The anti-critical race theory movement has caused educators strife and fear nationally. In these current socio-political times, faculty are navigating unprecedented experiences of racism as they teach and research critical race theory. Through our work, we examined 40 faculty experiences challenging legislation at a national, state, and institutional level. We present recommendations for practice and policy that resist the surveillance experience…
Hispanic-Serving Research One Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Making Sense of Dual Identities
This study explored the dual identity of Hispanic-serving research institutions (HSRIs) by highlighting how employees at four HSRIs perceived how both Hispanic-Serving Institutions and research-intensive statuses are reflected in the organization. Using the theory of racialized organizations (Ray, 2019), findings revealed how racialization occurs when research prestige becomes the dominant status, and certain individuals take on additional labor.…
Challenging the dominant narratives: Faculty members’ perceptions of administrators’ responses to Critical Race Theory bans
Purpose Legislators continue to label Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other race-based concepts as divisive. Nevertheless, CRT, at its core, is committed to radical transformation and addressing issues of race and racism to understand how People of Color are oppressed. Through rhetoric and legislative bans, this current anti-CRT movement uses race-neutral policies and practices to limit and eliminate CRT scholars, especially faculty members, from …
The commodification of men of color initiatives: Community colleges directors’ experiences with non-performative commitment
Program directors at community colleges must navigate institutional rhetoric to effectively support Men of Color. This study considers how administrators often exhibit a non-performative commitment to diversity, in that stated commitment might not equate to action. Utilizing a framework grounded in critical race theory and cognitive frames regarding diversity, deficit, and equity, the authors of the study interviewed directors of men of color pro…
Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas
Undocumented college students in the United States encounter a number of structural barriers to postsecondary education success, including disparate in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies across the country. Texas, the first state to establish ISRT benefits for undocumented college students, has been a site of tension respective to this issue over the last 20 years. In fact, there have been eight legislative attempts to repeal the state’s affi…
Positionality and Power: The Individual’s Role in Directing Community College Men of Color Initiatives
Community College Men of Color Initiatives (CCMCIs) are increasingly popular strategies utilized to promote retention and completion among Men of Color (MOC). CCMCI directors offer a unique positionality in understanding how their identities, institutional contexts, and power dynamics affect their design of programs and participating students. Using a critical phenomenological approach, the authors of this study explore the lived experiences of C…
Challenging race neutral rhetoric: Black student leaders’ counternarratives of racial salience in PWI student organizations
The racialization of Arab panethnic identity: Exploring Students’ Ingroup and Outgroup Social Positionings
Islamophobia has become increasingly evident in the sociocultural landscape of the United States. The current political climate which centers on the influx of refugees and concerns of extremists has in effect othered individuals of Arab ancestry as a bounded group. Arab students represent a heterogeneous group of individuals, encompassing a variety of viewpoints that challenge the fixed and static notion of Arab identity. This study utilizes the …
The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities
Veronica A. Jones, Richard J. Reddick, The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, Special Issue—When Voices Rise: Race, Resistance, and Campus Uprisings in the Information Age (Summer 2017), pp. 204-219
Whether and Whither an Applied Career Track for Doctoral Political Scientists
There is no surefire mechanism to balance the incoming flow of political science doctoral candidates with the availability of tenure-track positions upon graduation. With as many as 15% of such doctoral graduates leaving academe, it would appear time for the campus to begin mentoring its students with a seasoned understanding of the non-academic career options. A sampling of former APSA Congressional Fellow political science doctorates indicates …
The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities
Veronica A. Jones, Richard J. Reddick, The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, Special Issue—When Voices Rise: Race, Resistance, and Campus Uprisings in the Information Age (Summer 2017), pp. 204-219
Challenging the dominant narratives: Faculty members’ perceptions of administrators’ responses to Critical Race Theory bans
Purpose Legislators continue to label Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other race-based concepts as divisive. Nevertheless, CRT, at its core, is committed to radical transformation and addressing issues of race and racism to understand how People of Color are oppressed. Through rhetoric and legislative bans, this current anti-CRT movement uses race-neutral policies and practices to limit and eliminate CRT scholars, especially faculty members, from …
Challenging race neutral rhetoric: Black student leaders’ counternarratives of racial salience in PWI student organizations
The racialization of Arab panethnic identity: Exploring Students’ Ingroup and Outgroup Social Positionings
Islamophobia has become increasingly evident in the sociocultural landscape of the United States. The current political climate which centers on the influx of refugees and concerns of extremists has in effect othered individuals of Arab ancestry as a bounded group. Arab students represent a heterogeneous group of individuals, encompassing a variety of viewpoints that challenge the fixed and static notion of Arab identity. This study utilizes the …
Whether and Whither an Applied Career Track for Doctoral Political Scientists
There is no surefire mechanism to balance the incoming flow of political science doctoral candidates with the availability of tenure-track positions upon graduation. With as many as 15% of such doctoral graduates leaving academe, it would appear time for the campus to begin mentoring its students with a seasoned understanding of the non-academic career options. A sampling of former APSA Congressional Fellow political science doctorates indicates …
The racialization of Arab panethnic identity: Exploring Students’ Ingroup and Outgroup Social Positionings
Islamophobia has become increasingly evident in the sociocultural landscape of the United States. The current political climate which centers on the influx of refugees and concerns of extremists has in effect othered individuals of Arab ancestry as a bounded group. Arab students represent a heterogeneous group of individuals, encompassing a variety of viewpoints that challenge the fixed and static notion of Arab identity. This study utilizes the …
The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities
Veronica A. Jones, Richard J. Reddick, The Heterogeneity of Resistance: How Black Students Utilize Engagement and Activism to Challenge PWI Inequalities, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, Special Issue—When Voices Rise: Race, Resistance, and Campus Uprisings in the Information Age (Summer 2017), pp. 204-219
Challenging race neutral rhetoric: Black student leaders’ counternarratives of racial salience in PWI student organizations
Positionality and Power: The Individual’s Role in Directing Community College Men of Color Initiatives
Community College Men of Color Initiatives (CCMCIs) are increasingly popular strategies utilized to promote retention and completion among Men of Color (MOC). CCMCI directors offer a unique positionality in understanding how their identities, institutional contexts, and power dynamics affect their design of programs and participating students. Using a critical phenomenological approach, the authors of this study explore the lived experiences of C…
Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas
Undocumented college students in the United States encounter a number of structural barriers to postsecondary education success, including disparate in-state resident tuition (ISRT) policies across the country. Texas, the first state to establish ISRT benefits for undocumented college students, has been a site of tension respective to this issue over the last 20 years. In fact, there have been eight legislative attempts to repeal the state’s affi…
The commodification of men of color initiatives: Community colleges directors’ experiences with non-performative commitment
Program directors at community colleges must navigate institutional rhetoric to effectively support Men of Color. This study considers how administrators often exhibit a non-performative commitment to diversity, in that stated commitment might not equate to action. Utilizing a framework grounded in critical race theory and cognitive frames regarding diversity, deficit, and equity, the authors of the study interviewed directors of men of color pro…
“The House Is on Fire”: A Critical Analysis of Anti-CRT Bans and Faculty Experiences
The anti-critical race theory movement has caused educators strife and fear nationally. In these current socio-political times, faculty are navigating unprecedented experiences of racism as they teach and research critical race theory. Through our work, we examined 40 faculty experiences challenging legislation at a national, state, and institutional level. We present recommendations for practice and policy that resist the surveillance experience…
Hispanic-Serving Research One Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Making Sense of Dual Identities
This study explored the dual identity of Hispanic-serving research institutions (HSRIs) by highlighting how employees at four HSRIs perceived how both Hispanic-Serving Institutions and research-intensive statuses are reflected in the organization. Using the theory of racialized organizations (Ray, 2019), findings revealed how racialization occurs when research prestige becomes the dominant status, and certain individuals take on additional labor.…
Challenging the dominant narratives: Faculty members’ perceptions of administrators’ responses to Critical Race Theory bans
Purpose Legislators continue to label Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other race-based concepts as divisive. Nevertheless, CRT, at its core, is committed to radical transformation and addressing issues of race and racism to understand how People of Color are oppressed. Through rhetoric and legislative bans, this current anti-CRT movement uses race-neutral policies and practices to limit and eliminate CRT scholars, especially faculty members, from …
The Legal Logic of Whiteness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Policymakers’ Rhetoric in CRT Legislation
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)