Jessica Lee Stovall
Biographic Data
| ID | 6691448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Lee Stovall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Stovall |
| SIGNATURE | STOVALL J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5168-9555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Black people are more than just suffering”: A BlackCrit exploration of the impact of Advanced Placement African American Studies on student understandings of Black history
Most high school students in the United States will receive only minimal instruction in Black history. However, the College Board’s new Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies (AAS) curriculum has made Black-centered curriculum accessible to more students. Using a Black critical theory (BlackCrit) framework, we used classroom assignments, interviews, and observational data from one West Coast school’s pilot AP African American Studies co…
Worlding Black freedom: Unsettling the predicament of domination through fugitive and abolitionist pedagogies
The rise in scholarship on fugitivity and abolition within educational research has broadened our horizons on the relationship between education, power, and freedom. Coalescing data from two streams of qualitative research on fugitive educational spaces and abolitionist pedagogical stances, we draw on ethnographically informed data to illuminate how fugitive and abolitionist worlding create life-affirming educational counterspaces and build stude…
Cycles of Fugitivity: How Black Teacher Fugitive Space Shapes Black Teacher Pedagogies
As conservatives ban the teaching of Black history and critical understandings of race across the country, Black teachers are turning again to fugitive pedagogies, or subversive ways of teaching, to counter anti-blackness and imagine the world anew. This study drew on data from interviews, classroom observations, and student focus groups to demonstrate how a Black teacher fugitive professional learning space helped to motivate and inform the peda…
‘Grant us the sun’: What Black teachers need
In a time of growing teacher shortages, Black teachers are rapidly and disproportionately leaving the profession. Drawing upon their interviews with 30 Black teachers in the California Bay Area, Jessica Lee Stovall and Tara R. Sullivan provide insight into what it will take to keep Black teachers in the profession. The interviews depict both the anti-Blackness that Black teachers face and their freedom dreams for a better tomorrow for their stude…
We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness
This article presents findings from an empirical study that sought to understand how Black teachers collectively built a Black affinity space in response to the antiblackness they faced in their school sites. Analyses of interview and participant observation data point to the importance of Black teachers creating spaces reminiscent of a homeplace, where they can speak and act with their full selves through play, humor, and various expressions of …
We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness
This article presents findings from an empirical study that sought to understand how Black teachers collectively built a Black affinity space in response to the antiblackness they faced in their school sites. Analyses of interview and participant observation data point to the importance of Black teachers creating spaces reminiscent of a homeplace, where they can speak and act with their full selves through play, humor, and various expressions of …
‘Grant us the sun’: What Black teachers need
In a time of growing teacher shortages, Black teachers are rapidly and disproportionately leaving the profession. Drawing upon their interviews with 30 Black teachers in the California Bay Area, Jessica Lee Stovall and Tara R. Sullivan provide insight into what it will take to keep Black teachers in the profession. The interviews depict both the anti-Blackness that Black teachers face and their freedom dreams for a better tomorrow for their stude…
We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness
This article presents findings from an empirical study that sought to understand how Black teachers collectively built a Black affinity space in response to the antiblackness they faced in their school sites. Analyses of interview and participant observation data point to the importance of Black teachers creating spaces reminiscent of a homeplace, where they can speak and act with their full selves through play, humor, and various expressions of …
Cycles of Fugitivity: How Black Teacher Fugitive Space Shapes Black Teacher Pedagogies
As conservatives ban the teaching of Black history and critical understandings of race across the country, Black teachers are turning again to fugitive pedagogies, or subversive ways of teaching, to counter anti-blackness and imagine the world anew. This study drew on data from interviews, classroom observations, and student focus groups to demonstrate how a Black teacher fugitive professional learning space helped to motivate and inform the peda…
“Black people are more than just suffering”: A BlackCrit exploration of the impact of Advanced Placement African American Studies on student understandings of Black history
Most high school students in the United States will receive only minimal instruction in Black history. However, the College Board’s new Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies (AAS) curriculum has made Black-centered curriculum accessible to more students. Using a Black critical theory (BlackCrit) framework, we used classroom assignments, interviews, and observational data from one West Coast school’s pilot AP African American Studies co…
Worlding Black freedom: Unsettling the predicament of domination through fugitive and abolitionist pedagogies
The rise in scholarship on fugitivity and abolition within educational research has broadened our horizons on the relationship between education, power, and freedom. Coalescing data from two streams of qualitative research on fugitive educational spaces and abolitionist pedagogical stances, we draw on ethnographically informed data to illuminate how fugitive and abolitionist worlding create life-affirming educational counterspaces and build stude…
Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Black male (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)