Their Highest Potential
An African American School Community in the Segregated South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Siddle Walker (corresponding author), Vanessa Walker (0009-0006-3135-2879) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Pages | 259 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South, Valinda W Littlefield, 1998 |
| Reviewed by | Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South, Kathleen C Berkeley, 1997 |
| Venue | Their highest potential (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5149/uncp/9780807845813 |
| OpenAlex | W4255599061 |
| Open Library | OL803043M |
| ISBN | 9780807845813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 436 |
Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Environmental Science · Physics and Engineering Research Articles · 371.97/96/756575 · African americans · Bilingual Education · Case studies · Caswell County · Caswell County Training School (Caswell County, N.C.) · Community and school · Education · History · Lc2802.n8 s53 1996 · North Carolina · Rassentrennung · Schule · Segregation in education · South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) · State & Local
Separate and Superior
Elite Versus Grassroots
Racial Storylines and Implications for Learning
Conceptualizing Cultural and Racialized Process in Learning
Greater than Equal
The Kings of Mississippi
Strange Fruit Indeed
A Movement against and beyond Boundaries
Diversifying Teaching and Teacher Education
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
The Added Value of Latinx and Black Teachers for Latinx and Black Students
Valued Segregated Schools for African American Children in the South, 1935-1969
Segregation, Desegregation, Resegregation
Beyond hegemony
Chicago High School Students' Movement for Quality Public Education, 1966-1971
African American Principals and the Legacy of Brown
Progressive Social Movements and Educational Equity
Chapter 4
Integrated Out of Existence”
A Womanist Experience of Caring
Remembering the Past and Contesting the Future of School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1975–2012
Desegregation and the Historically Black High School
Teaching and Social Reform in the 1960s
Education Desegregation and Cognitive Change in African American Older Adults
The Power of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision
The Stories We Choose to Tell
Community Engaged Leadership Amid Whiteness
Democracy Interrogators
Race and Education
“You will always be”
Good soil
Trading Spaces
Black Feminist (Re)Constructions of Education in the Afterlife of Abolition
Call Us by Our Names
“There Isn't an Easy Way for Me to Talk About This”
The roles of Black women principals
The costs of diversifying the principal workforce
Teachers, leadership, and Black boys’ racialized funds of knowledge
Black women teachers’ shapeshifting boundaryless careers
From anti-Black violence to pro-Black protections
Relationship Building in a Black Space
Getting Black Men to the Blackboard
Toward What Justice and Justice for Whom? A BlackCrit Meditation on and against Miami University’s Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry’s Threshold Concepts
Finding Renewal and Inspiration through the Teaching and Learning of Black Education
“I’m More Than a Teacher”
Successful Black Mathematics Teachers Building Collectivity, Autonomy, and Mathematics Expertise of Their Black Girls
Using the History of Black Teachers to (Re)Construct What We Know About Teacher Leadership
“Losing One African American Preservice Teacher is One Too Many”
Researching the Neighborhood and Schooling Experiences of Black Male High School “Students who Play Sports” in Atlanta and Chicago
Caring Now and Later
The Wretched of the Research
Theoretical perspectives for developing antiracist teaching dispositions and practices in preservice teacher education
Understanding the Anti-Carceral Possibility of School-Based Restorative Justice
Guiding Like the North Star
The Exact Synonym for “Missionary” is “Negro Teacher”
Reimagining American Education
Do You See Me? An Examination of Black Pre-Service Teacher Experiences in a Teacher Preparation Program
Aera Presidential Address 2026 The Future Is Here
The Deep Roots of Inequity
Introduction
A critical race theory test of W.E.B. DuBois’ hypothesis
Diversifying curricula in the Deep North
The ‘hidden injuries’ of school desegregation
Tenets of Body-Soul Rooted Pedagogy
Student agency in restorative justice
Asian diaspora imaginaries and futurities
Living in Each Other's Pockets”
Black woman fatigue
Inclusion of Repatriated Greek and Foreign Immigrant Students in School Education’
Understanding the discipline gap through a cultural lens
Towards an interest‐convergence in the education of African‐American football student athletes in major college sports
That’s My Job’
An initial exploration of a community-based framework for educational equity with explicated exemplars
Meeting myself
Fighting the marginalization of Asian American students with caring schools
Worlding Black freedom
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
We who believe in freedom
Derrick Bell’s post- Brown moves toward critical race theory
Sensing the urgency
Standardized testing and school segregation
Freedom lessons
They were constantly on the losing side of things’
Some canaries left behind? Evaluating a state‐endorsed lesson plan database and its social construction of who and what counts
No there is nothing wrong with your eyes, my letterhead is indeed crooked”
Beyond the white savior
The Puzzlemasters
I know what you are about to enter’
A charge to keep I have
They fear us knowing too much”
The White gaze
It’s the who and what are you afraid of?” for me
Come and get your soul food”
More than casual concern
Race‐ing through the school day
Who raised you?”
Back to Black
Carving out a legal narrative from Galarza to Soria
Our family business was education’
Interstitial Collaboration
| Unique citing works | 315 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 432 |