Amber M Neal-Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5429679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber M Neal-Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber M |
| FAMILY NAME | Neal-Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | NEAL-STANLEY A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1845-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Collaborative Anti‐Racist Research With Young Black Children
Through the corrective lenses of anti‐racist and Black feminist pedagogical literature, and with the concomitant aim of centering children's perspectives, this conceptual article focuses on developing a framework to advance anti‐racist research practices with young Black children. By foregrounding anti‐racist and Black feminist concepts of Black refusal and Black futurity, structured within a desire‐based framework, the present analysis further a…
Digital Collage Portraiture: An Artful Self-Inquiry Into the Archive
How can visual methods and aesthetics be used to present, or rather (re)present historical Black women’s perspectives? What possibilities might the arts open for archival research with/about Black women? Theoretically grounded in (re)membering, and guided by portraiture, histori art graphy, and Black women collage artists, this paper explores these questions, offering digital collage portraiture as artful self-inquiry into the archive. To illustr…
The (Re)search for Goodness: Quilting a Womanist Archival Praxis in Education
This paper introduces womanist archival praxis as an endarkened, arts-based, and spiritually grounded approach to historical inquiry. It explicitly centers Black women’s intellectual, spiritual, and embodied lives, and reimagines the archive as both a site of violence and of possibility. Responding to the erasure and distortion of Black women within dominant historical narratives, this paper proposes the (re)search for goodness as a methodologica…
The essence of Black male introversion: Toward interiority, intimacy, and fugitive masculinities
Illegible black boyhood: A phenomenology of quiet in black male introverts’ educational experiences
This study examines the educational experiences of Black male introverts, revealing how schools function as sites of surveillance, exclusion, and racialized misrecognition. Drawing on the concept of punitive inertia, it demonstrates how quiet Black boys are policed not for misbehavior, but for their mere presence and expression of introversion – traits often misread as defiance or disengagement. Participants’ narratives challenge dominant notions…
The radical (im)possibilities of Black women’s democratic pedagogies
This paper examines the radical (im)possibilities of Black women’s democratic pedagogies, highlighting the tension of enacting liberatory education within oppressive systems. Across K-12 and higher education, Black women educators cultivate participatory, transformative learning spaces that challenge Eurocentric, patriarchal, and neoliberal norms while centering students’ lived experiences. Drawing on the activism and pedagogical practices of his…
Parents’ Rights and the “Dangers of Critical Race Theory” for Children: More Than Spots & Stripes
Critical Race Theory (CRT), an academic framework for understanding systems of racial oppression, has entered the mainstream vernacular, alongside efforts by lawmakers and parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty to ban “divisive concepts” in classrooms, including DEI, race, gender identity, and histories of oppression. This article examines definitions of CRT used by lawmakers and parental rights groups compared with its original meaning in …
Black Feminist (Re)Constructions of Education in the Afterlife of Abolition: An Invitation
Scholars have utilized the allegory of Reconstruction to trace threads between the historical and contemporary struggles for freedom. In this article, I highlight the ways that abolition has always been a dual project and remains as such in our present time. It calls for the complete destruction of oppressive structures while simultaneously demanding that we consider our world once those structures are ameliorated. Using (Re)construction as a fra…
White Christian nationalism in Black education: Breaking bread at the kitchen table
In spirit and in truth: (Re)searching Christianity and racial liberation in education
As educational justice scholarship addressing racial oppression continues to name the role of the spirit, there is a need for Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to locate ourselves as grounded in the epistemologies and pedagogies of Christ as our spiritual home. This paper brings together eight Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to grapple with what it means to be Christians committed to racial justice in educati…
The religio-spiritual capital of the Black Church: A conceptual model for combatting antiblackness in the early years
Antiblackness is a form of pain, abuse, and suffering against the spirit of young Black children, necessitating a spiritual solution. • The Black Church, as an institution, has been at the forefront of foregrounding the charge for equality, equity, and social justice in the Black community. • The Black Church is a site for the development of religio-spiritual capital for young Black children. • The amalgamation of religious and spiritual capital …
God Meant I Should Be Free”: Historical Black Women Teachers and the Womanist Theo-Ethical Imperative of Abolition
Historical Black women teachers actively participated in the fight to abolish slavery while simultaneously, struggling for educational equity. This paper departs to address what inspired them to engage in these radical actions during the era of enslavement and its immediate afterlives. Drawing on close analysis of archival documents, this paper reclaims the radical faith of historical Black women teachers that allowed them to move from intimate, …
The fugitive spirit of historical Black women teachers: Theorizing hush harbors as praxis
Throughout history, US schools have often operated as a site of Black suffering, destroying the inherent genius and spirit of Black students. As a result, it is vital for teachers to not only develop the competencies and pedagogical skills necessary to teach Black children but also create spaces of healing for their minds, bodies, and spirits. In this article, I explore how historical Black women teachers subverted oppressive laws and policies, n…
The fugitive spirit of historical Black women teachers: Theorizing hush harbors as praxis
Throughout history, US schools have often operated as a site of Black suffering, destroying the inherent genius and spirit of Black students. As a result, it is vital for teachers to not only develop the competencies and pedagogical skills necessary to teach Black children but also create spaces of healing for their minds, bodies, and spirits. In this article, I explore how historical Black women teachers subverted oppressive laws and policies, n…
The religio-spiritual capital of the Black Church: A conceptual model for combatting antiblackness in the early years
Antiblackness is a form of pain, abuse, and suffering against the spirit of young Black children, necessitating a spiritual solution. • The Black Church, as an institution, has been at the forefront of foregrounding the charge for equality, equity, and social justice in the Black community. • The Black Church is a site for the development of religio-spiritual capital for young Black children. • The amalgamation of religious and spiritual capital …
God Meant I Should Be Free”: Historical Black Women Teachers and the Womanist Theo-Ethical Imperative of Abolition
Historical Black women teachers actively participated in the fight to abolish slavery while simultaneously, struggling for educational equity. This paper departs to address what inspired them to engage in these radical actions during the era of enslavement and its immediate afterlives. Drawing on close analysis of archival documents, this paper reclaims the radical faith of historical Black women teachers that allowed them to move from intimate, …
In spirit and in truth: (Re)searching Christianity and racial liberation in education
As educational justice scholarship addressing racial oppression continues to name the role of the spirit, there is a need for Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to locate ourselves as grounded in the epistemologies and pedagogies of Christ as our spiritual home. This paper brings together eight Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to grapple with what it means to be Christians committed to racial justice in educati…
The fugitive spirit of historical Black women teachers: Theorizing hush harbors as praxis
Throughout history, US schools have often operated as a site of Black suffering, destroying the inherent genius and spirit of Black students. As a result, it is vital for teachers to not only develop the competencies and pedagogical skills necessary to teach Black children but also create spaces of healing for their minds, bodies, and spirits. In this article, I explore how historical Black women teachers subverted oppressive laws and policies, n…
Black Feminist (Re)Constructions of Education in the Afterlife of Abolition: An Invitation
Scholars have utilized the allegory of Reconstruction to trace threads between the historical and contemporary struggles for freedom. In this article, I highlight the ways that abolition has always been a dual project and remains as such in our present time. It calls for the complete destruction of oppressive structures while simultaneously demanding that we consider our world once those structures are ameliorated. Using (Re)construction as a fra…
White Christian nationalism in Black education: Breaking bread at the kitchen table
In spirit and in truth: (Re)searching Christianity and racial liberation in education
As educational justice scholarship addressing racial oppression continues to name the role of the spirit, there is a need for Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to locate ourselves as grounded in the epistemologies and pedagogies of Christ as our spiritual home. This paper brings together eight Black and Brown Christian educators and researchers to grapple with what it means to be Christians committed to racial justice in educati…
The religio-spiritual capital of the Black Church: A conceptual model for combatting antiblackness in the early years
Antiblackness is a form of pain, abuse, and suffering against the spirit of young Black children, necessitating a spiritual solution. • The Black Church, as an institution, has been at the forefront of foregrounding the charge for equality, equity, and social justice in the Black community. • The Black Church is a site for the development of religio-spiritual capital for young Black children. • The amalgamation of religious and spiritual capital …
God Meant I Should Be Free”: Historical Black Women Teachers and the Womanist Theo-Ethical Imperative of Abolition
Historical Black women teachers actively participated in the fight to abolish slavery while simultaneously, struggling for educational equity. This paper departs to address what inspired them to engage in these radical actions during the era of enslavement and its immediate afterlives. Drawing on close analysis of archival documents, this paper reclaims the radical faith of historical Black women teachers that allowed them to move from intimate, …
The radical (im)possibilities of Black women’s democratic pedagogies
This paper examines the radical (im)possibilities of Black women’s democratic pedagogies, highlighting the tension of enacting liberatory education within oppressive systems. Across K-12 and higher education, Black women educators cultivate participatory, transformative learning spaces that challenge Eurocentric, patriarchal, and neoliberal norms while centering students’ lived experiences. Drawing on the activism and pedagogical practices of his…
Parents’ Rights and the “Dangers of Critical Race Theory” for Children: More Than Spots & Stripes
Critical Race Theory (CRT), an academic framework for understanding systems of racial oppression, has entered the mainstream vernacular, alongside efforts by lawmakers and parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty to ban “divisive concepts” in classrooms, including DEI, race, gender identity, and histories of oppression. This article examines definitions of CRT used by lawmakers and parental rights groups compared with its original meaning in …
From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Collaborative Anti‐Racist Research With Young Black Children
Through the corrective lenses of anti‐racist and Black feminist pedagogical literature, and with the concomitant aim of centering children's perspectives, this conceptual article focuses on developing a framework to advance anti‐racist research practices with young Black children. By foregrounding anti‐racist and Black feminist concepts of Black refusal and Black futurity, structured within a desire‐based framework, the present analysis further a…
Digital Collage Portraiture: An Artful Self-Inquiry Into the Archive
How can visual methods and aesthetics be used to present, or rather (re)present historical Black women’s perspectives? What possibilities might the arts open for archival research with/about Black women? Theoretically grounded in (re)membering, and guided by portraiture, histori art graphy, and Black women collage artists, this paper explores these questions, offering digital collage portraiture as artful self-inquiry into the archive. To illustr…
The (Re)search for Goodness: Quilting a Womanist Archival Praxis in Education
This paper introduces womanist archival praxis as an endarkened, arts-based, and spiritually grounded approach to historical inquiry. It explicitly centers Black women’s intellectual, spiritual, and embodied lives, and reimagines the archive as both a site of violence and of possibility. Responding to the erasure and distortion of Black women within dominant historical narratives, this paper proposes the (re)search for goodness as a methodologica…
The essence of Black male introversion: Toward interiority, intimacy, and fugitive masculinities
Illegible black boyhood: A phenomenology of quiet in black male introverts’ educational experiences
This study examines the educational experiences of Black male introverts, revealing how schools function as sites of surveillance, exclusion, and racialized misrecognition. Drawing on the concept of punitive inertia, it demonstrates how quiet Black boys are policed not for misbehavior, but for their mere presence and expression of introversion – traits often misread as defiance or disengagement. Participants’ narratives challenge dominant notions…
Critical Race Theory in Education (10 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Critical race theory (3 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (3 works)