Chonika Coleman-King

University of Florida | UF · School of Teaching and Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on social media, as a means to create “a village” offering powerful social support and community. The impact of these virtual spaces may be particularly significant for virtual groups based on shared social identity; however, more research is needed to understand how these spaces can be created to ultimately be...

Black teachers (BTs) are significantly underrepresented in the US teaching profession, yet there is still little focus on how to best hire, support, and retain them. This collaborative autoethnography documents our work in an urban characteristic school district and university in the southeastern US and how we leveraged our interpersonal and profes...

This collaborative auto‐ethnography provides an account of the sociohistorical context of Black mothering in the United States and highlights how our complex, intersectional identities as Black‐(other)mother‐scholars shape our cultivation of the homeplace—a place where Black children are nurtured as “subjects, not objects,” in a society that aims t...

This paper is in dialogue with Lisa Marco-Bujosa's article titled, "Soul searching in science teaching: an exploration of critical teaching events through the lens of intersectionality" where the author takes up the ways that Faith’s Jamaican immigrant Black woman identities are shaped and how she understood and enacted teaching for social justice....

In efforts to better prepare students for a technology-driven workforce, many states and districts have pushed for clustered teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K-12 schools, yet science and mathematics remain the cornerstones upon which broader opportunities in STEM education are built. Teachers serve as boundar...

Black women have historically informed educational theory and practice. As Black women who have been nurtured and sustained by Black women's educational leadership both inside and outside the home, and who mother and "othermother" Black children, we seek to recognize and honor the labor of Black women. Motherwork, a term coined by Patricia Hill Col...

This autoethnographic piece highlights the tensions inherent in my experiences as a second-generation immigrant of Jamaican descent. I draw on my experiences to address how my positionalities as Black, immigrant, and woman push up against the politics of U.S. academic institutions. Specifically, I explore (a) the ways in which I experienced otherin...

The article uses events and narratives from the perspectives of Black women professors as examples of how allyship can be birthed and to illustrate the roles, responsibilities, and risks inherent in allyship development and work. It focuses on the labor needed to establish and sustain allyship as critical anti-racist educators in an Urban Teacher P...

This paper reports on a curriculum designed for Black students whose school teachers and administrators sought to address concerns about students’ academic underachievement and behavioral challenges. In order to design the curriculum, we examined Black students’ reactions to race- and academic-related stress as a result of their interactions with m...

In this chapter, we highlight the ways in which our intersectional identities as Black women and mothers have shaped our journeys as mother–scholars and our work in the service of all children, but specifically Black children.

Published in American Educational History Journal, special edition 2021

The fears of pre-service teachers, particularly Teach for America (TFA) teachers. about working in urban classroom settings are framed as racial stress. Racial stress is the threat of well-being when one is unprepared to negotiate a race-related inter-personal encounter. Currently, there exist no measures on racial stress, socialization, and coping...

As demonstrated through the disregard for Black humanity and respondent Black social movements throughout Latin America, anti-Black systemic racism is a transnational phenomenon birthed from global White supremacy. Across the Americas, the hemispheric parallels undergirding collective resistance to anti-Black racism and state-sanctioned violence le...

Culture is dynamic, shifting and varied over time and geographic place; it is also often invisible to those whose lives are shaped by its taken for granted rules of “how we do things around here.” The notion that White cultural trends and behavior might shape the life of schools is hard to grasp for most White teachers for whom the culture is invis...

In this article, ELA and urban teacher educators who have been long-time advocates for and users of young adult literature in their work with beginning English teachers rethink the cultural constructs of "black and brown" adolescence that undergird the genre and guide their work. and Henderson; Haddix and Price-Dennis). Yet, we worry that we have n...