Jordan Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6573645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dutchess Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4801-5549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Persistent environmental lead exposures disrupting black children’s neurodevelopment and quality of life trajectories: An under-recognized ACE in the hole
Purpose Lead is a well-established environmental contaminant that over the last 50 years has become recognized as a neurotoxin with its greatest concern for the developing child (i.e. both in-utero and postnatally). What is problematic is that children exposed to lead often come from lower socioeconomic status (SES), are largely Black communities and are further at increased risk for developing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The literature…
Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy Crates
In this article, we introduce co-excavative letter writing as a method for developing racial literacy, deepening relationships, and challenging standard forms of knowledge production. Jordan and Karen, students in Yolanda’s cotaught graduate seminar, developed an epistolary exchange as part of their “(un)final project.” Collaborative epistles challenged the writers to explore their positionalities, allowing them to trace interrelated issues of po…
Black Lives Matter and the Making of Black Educational Spaces
There is currently a dearth of research on the creation and the implications of Black educational space, even with the increased awareness raised by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to the individual and structural antiblackness inherent in the United States. This essay aims to share the BLM history that helped to motivate and inform two Black college educators’ construction of Black educational space. The analysis reveals that a pro-Black p…
Dreaming beyond education policy: A BlackCrit analysis of Esea and Essa
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the first major federal education policy, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the most recent federal policy, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, through a Black critical theory (BlackCrit) lens to understand better how these educational policies have served as antiblack projects. Furthermore, this study locates examples of educational Freedom Dreams in the past and present t…
A Kitchen-Table Talk About Community Cultural Wealth in the Time of Covid-19
In recognition of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic pronounced racialized and ethnicized inequities, five educators and community activists from across the United States gathered to reflect on the ways Black and Brown communities have developed community cultural wealth in the time of COVID-19. The authors gathered on Zoom to share their personal, familial, and communal experiences with COVID-19. Moreover, they shared narratives of familial and…
Going beyond anti-racist pedagogical practices: Co-constructing a pro-Black classroom
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the means, rationale, challenges and opportunities of shifting focus from anti-racist to pro-Black educational practice. The authors argue that while anti-racism is necessary, it is insufficient in addressing the deeply entrenched anti-Blackness in US society. The instructor and three student members of a graduate course on Black girlhoods reflect on their time together to better understand the proc…
Get to know me, homey: Exploring critical, relational and racial literacy possibilities in co-excavative letter writing
Purpose There is currently a dearth of research on the implications of the epistolary as a site for knowledge production. This paper aims to demystify the process of academic theorizing through the co-authors’ co-excavative epistolary method. Design/methodology/approach Through co-excavative epistolary practices, the co-authors’ relationship was deepened, the collective sense was made of Covid-19, and racial literacy-centered academic theorizing …
Understanding Leisure Centre-Based Physical Activity after Physical Activity Referral: Evidence from Scheme Participants and Completers in Northumberland UK
Physical activity referral schemes (PARS) are a popular physical activity (PA) intervention in the UK. Little is known about the type, intensity and duration of PA undertaken during and post PARS. We calculated weekly leisure centre-based moderate/vigorous PA for PARS participants (n = 448) and PARS completers (n = 746) in Northumberland, UK, between March 2019-February 2020 using administrative data. We categorised activity levels (<30 min/week,…
We are each other’s breath: Tracing interdependency through critical poetic inquiry
In this paper, we utilize poetic methods that seek to surface, but not overdetermine, the unanticipated relational excess produced through literacy practices. Karen, a queer white woman, and Jordan, a cis-gendered heterosexual Black man, wrote a series of letters to one another throughout the Spring 2020 semester. We turned to critical poetic inquiry to analyze the letters, interested in poetry’s capacity to highlight literacy’s critical power an…
Going beyond anti-racist pedagogical practices: Co-constructing a pro-Black classroom
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the means, rationale, challenges and opportunities of shifting focus from anti-racist to pro-Black educational practice. The authors argue that while anti-racism is necessary, it is insufficient in addressing the deeply entrenched anti-Blackness in US society. The instructor and three student members of a graduate course on Black girlhoods reflect on their time together to better understand the proc…
We are each other’s breath: Tracing interdependency through critical poetic inquiry
In this paper, we utilize poetic methods that seek to surface, but not overdetermine, the unanticipated relational excess produced through literacy practices. Karen, a queer white woman, and Jordan, a cis-gendered heterosexual Black man, wrote a series of letters to one another throughout the Spring 2020 semester. We turned to critical poetic inquiry to analyze the letters, interested in poetry’s capacity to highlight literacy’s critical power an…
Understanding Leisure Centre-Based Physical Activity after Physical Activity Referral: Evidence from Scheme Participants and Completers in Northumberland UK
Physical activity referral schemes (PARS) are a popular physical activity (PA) intervention in the UK. Little is known about the type, intensity and duration of PA undertaken during and post PARS. We calculated weekly leisure centre-based moderate/vigorous PA for PARS participants (n = 448) and PARS completers (n = 746) in Northumberland, UK, between March 2019-February 2020 using administrative data. We categorised activity levels (<30 min/week,…
We are each other’s breath: Tracing interdependency through critical poetic inquiry
In this paper, we utilize poetic methods that seek to surface, but not overdetermine, the unanticipated relational excess produced through literacy practices. Karen, a queer white woman, and Jordan, a cis-gendered heterosexual Black man, wrote a series of letters to one another throughout the Spring 2020 semester. We turned to critical poetic inquiry to analyze the letters, interested in poetry’s capacity to highlight literacy’s critical power an…
A Kitchen-Table Talk About Community Cultural Wealth in the Time of Covid-19
In recognition of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic pronounced racialized and ethnicized inequities, five educators and community activists from across the United States gathered to reflect on the ways Black and Brown communities have developed community cultural wealth in the time of COVID-19. The authors gathered on Zoom to share their personal, familial, and communal experiences with COVID-19. Moreover, they shared narratives of familial and…
Going beyond anti-racist pedagogical practices: Co-constructing a pro-Black classroom
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the means, rationale, challenges and opportunities of shifting focus from anti-racist to pro-Black educational practice. The authors argue that while anti-racism is necessary, it is insufficient in addressing the deeply entrenched anti-Blackness in US society. The instructor and three student members of a graduate course on Black girlhoods reflect on their time together to better understand the proc…
Get to know me, homey: Exploring critical, relational and racial literacy possibilities in co-excavative letter writing
Purpose There is currently a dearth of research on the implications of the epistolary as a site for knowledge production. This paper aims to demystify the process of academic theorizing through the co-authors’ co-excavative epistolary method. Design/methodology/approach Through co-excavative epistolary practices, the co-authors’ relationship was deepened, the collective sense was made of Covid-19, and racial literacy-centered academic theorizing …
Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy Crates
In this article, we introduce co-excavative letter writing as a method for developing racial literacy, deepening relationships, and challenging standard forms of knowledge production. Jordan and Karen, students in Yolanda’s cotaught graduate seminar, developed an epistolary exchange as part of their “(un)final project.” Collaborative epistles challenged the writers to explore their positionalities, allowing them to trace interrelated issues of po…
Black Lives Matter and the Making of Black Educational Spaces
There is currently a dearth of research on the creation and the implications of Black educational space, even with the increased awareness raised by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to the individual and structural antiblackness inherent in the United States. This essay aims to share the BLM history that helped to motivate and inform two Black college educators’ construction of Black educational space. The analysis reveals that a pro-Black p…
Dreaming beyond education policy: A BlackCrit analysis of Esea and Essa
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the first major federal education policy, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the most recent federal policy, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, through a Black critical theory (BlackCrit) lens to understand better how these educational policies have served as antiblack projects. Furthermore, this study locates examples of educational Freedom Dreams in the past and present t…
Persistent environmental lead exposures disrupting black children’s neurodevelopment and quality of life trajectories: An under-recognized ACE in the hole
Purpose Lead is a well-established environmental contaminant that over the last 50 years has become recognized as a neurotoxin with its greatest concern for the developing child (i.e. both in-utero and postnatally). What is problematic is that children exposed to lead often come from lower socioeconomic status (SES), are largely Black communities and are further at increased risk for developing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The literature…
Sociology (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)