Conceptualizations of Blackness in Educational Research

rosalind hampton, is Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Sefanit Habtom, is Postdoctoral Scholar in the College of Education, University of Washington, USA. Joanna L. Williams, is Associate Professor, School Psychology Department, Rutgers University, USA.

• Series Editor Introduction. 1. Introduction: Conceptualizations of Blackness in Educational Research. Part I: The jewels of our souls: Blackness and the fullness of existence. 2. All That We Are. 3. The Spiritual Aesthetics of Black World Creation: A Departure from Blackness as the Unfree. 4. Toward an Ontology of Black Intimacy. 5. Towards Black and Indigenous Kinship and Desire. Part II. Illuminating Im/Possibilities. 6. Lighting the Way. 7. Becoming Storied: Impossible Storytelling as an act of Fugitive Wake Work. 8. “I’ve been down so long it looks like up to me”: The Practice of Racial Formation as Overthrow. Part III. Black Futurities. 9. Dear Desiree. 10. The beautiful, beautiful river: Toni Morrison and theorizing Blackness outside the white gaze. 11. Faulty Foundations: Research and reckoning with anti-blackness in mathematics education. 12. Imagining Possible Black Girl Futures: Critical Self-Reflection as Praxis for Theorizing with Black Girls