Shameka N Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4468987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shameka N Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shameka N |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4530-2403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Advantaged Families’ Opportunity Hoarding in U.S. K–12 Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature
A growing body of educational research uses opportunity hoarding as a construct to understand advantaged families’ engagement in K–12 U.S. schooling. Our systematic review of the literature reveals that advantaged parents hoard educational resources and opportunities in three key areas: (1) the creation and maintenance of white space; (2) school choice/selection; and (3) organizational routines. While much can be learned from the extant research,…
Licensing whiteness: Property, privilege, and (re)centering the politics of race within neoliberalism
Critical race theory ought to be central to analyses of neoliberalism and its impact on contemporary educational landscapes in the United States. Neoliberalism finds grounding in the rule of law, particularly as it relates to the role of contracts, contractual relationships, and by extension forms of licensure. Parallel to this, critical race theory also finds conceptual grounding in law, most notably as it pertains to understandings of linkages …
Sponsoring but Sorting: Teachers, Black Student Success, and Tensions
Toward a BlackQueerEducator politic and praxis
In this paper, the author argues that Black queer educators have a unique opportunity to point out ways they have been caught in the crosshairs of structural oppression. In light of this, the author offers a BlackQueerEducator politic and praxis. The author argues that a BlackQueerEducator politic is fundamentally guided by intersectional analysis and a Black feminist sensibility and offers ways to challenge oppressive hierarchies
The paradox of a credit-recovery program: Alleviating and exacerbating racial inequity
This ethnographic case study examines how a racial equity-focused effort was contested and undermined by analyzing classroom observations and interviews with three teachers who worked in a credit-recovery program. Drawing on Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) whiteness as property and restrictive equality analytical lenses, this article illustrates that although the credit-recovery program was created to offer struggling Black students support and to a…
The interplay between service learning and the ideological becoming of aspiring educators who are “marked” as different
The “Battlefield”: Life Histories of Two Higher Education Staff Members of Color
The paradox of a credit-recovery program: Alleviating and exacerbating racial inequity
This ethnographic case study examines how a racial equity-focused effort was contested and undermined by analyzing classroom observations and interviews with three teachers who worked in a credit-recovery program. Drawing on Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) whiteness as property and restrictive equality analytical lenses, this article illustrates that although the credit-recovery program was created to offer struggling Black students support and to a…
The “Battlefield”: Life Histories of Two Higher Education Staff Members of Color
The interplay between service learning and the ideological becoming of aspiring educators who are “marked” as different
The “Battlefield”: Life Histories of Two Higher Education Staff Members of Color
The paradox of a credit-recovery program: Alleviating and exacerbating racial inequity
This ethnographic case study examines how a racial equity-focused effort was contested and undermined by analyzing classroom observations and interviews with three teachers who worked in a credit-recovery program. Drawing on Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) whiteness as property and restrictive equality analytical lenses, this article illustrates that although the credit-recovery program was created to offer struggling Black students support and to a…
Toward a BlackQueerEducator politic and praxis
In this paper, the author argues that Black queer educators have a unique opportunity to point out ways they have been caught in the crosshairs of structural oppression. In light of this, the author offers a BlackQueerEducator politic and praxis. The author argues that a BlackQueerEducator politic is fundamentally guided by intersectional analysis and a Black feminist sensibility and offers ways to challenge oppressive hierarchies
Licensing whiteness: Property, privilege, and (re)centering the politics of race within neoliberalism
Critical race theory ought to be central to analyses of neoliberalism and its impact on contemporary educational landscapes in the United States. Neoliberalism finds grounding in the rule of law, particularly as it relates to the role of contracts, contractual relationships, and by extension forms of licensure. Parallel to this, critical race theory also finds conceptual grounding in law, most notably as it pertains to understandings of linkages …
Sponsoring but Sorting: Teachers, Black Student Success, and Tensions
Advantaged Families’ Opportunity Hoarding in U.S. K–12 Education: A Systematic Review of the Literature
A growing body of educational research uses opportunity hoarding as a construct to understand advantaged families’ engagement in K–12 U.S. schooling. Our systematic review of the literature reveals that advantaged parents hoard educational resources and opportunities in three key areas: (1) the creation and maintenance of white space; (2) school choice/selection; and (3) organizational routines. While much can be learned from the extant research,…
Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race (biology (3 works)