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Professor Ross’ program of research draws on critical ethnographic and participatory design methodologies to examine the multiplicity of ways that antiblackness is lived by Black students in what she calls the afterlife of school segregation, a framework that illuminates the ways in which despite the end of legal segregation of schooling, Black students remain systematically dehumanized and positioned as uneducable. Critically, her work also explores how Black educators and students collectively imagine and resist antiblackness, and racialization processes more generally. Specifically, her conceptualization of Black educational fugitive space explores the ways Black students and educators enact educational fugitivity through the social production of Black space in the margin. She is particularly interested in the ways Black educational fugitive space manifests as both departure and refuge from the gratuitous violence of the afterlife of school segregation, and spawns the possibilities for rebirth and resistance.
Her current book project explores the ways Black girls and a Black woman educator create a fugitive space within a Black women’s studies elective class at a public high school in an urban district in Northern California. This work builds on Ross’ theorization of Black space in education and findings have implications for considering the ways Black educational fugitive space can serve to mitigate students’ racialized experiences and help students reimagine destructive notions of blackness in schools and in society.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Social and Cultural Studies of Education, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
… → 2016
Social and Cultural Studies of Education, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
… → 2016
Social and Cultural Studies of Education, MA, University of California at Berkeley
… → 2011
Social and Cultural Studies of Education, MA, University of California, Berkeley
… → 2011
African American Studies, Sociology, BA, University of California at Berkeley
… → 2002
African American Studies, Sociology, BA, University of California, Berkeley
… → 2002
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Co‐designing STEM Education with Communities: Centering History, Heterogeneity, Power, and Place
Vakil, S. (PD/PI), Vakil, S. (PD/PI), Pinkard, N. (Co-Investigator), Pinkard, N. (Co-Investigator), ross, K. M. (Co-Investigator) & ross, K. M. (Co-Investigator)
9/15/23 → 2/28/29
Project: Research project
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Research Communication: Wrestling with reparations: A historical and ethnographic study of a Black community's struggle for educational justice
ross, K. M. (PD/PI), ross, K. M. (PD/PI) & ross, K. M. (PD/PI)
9/1/22 → 12/31/25
Project: Research project
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The Clearing: A Convening on Black Education Studies
ross, K. M. (PD/PI)
4/1/22 → 6/30/23
Project: Research project
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A study of a Black community's struggle for educational justice
ross, K. M. (PD/PI)
6/1/21 → 8/31/24
Project: Research project
Research Output
- 7 Article
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Envisioning Black space in environmental education for young children
Nxumalo, F. & ross, K. M., Jul 4 2019, In: Race Ethnicity and Education. 22, 4, p. 502-524 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
81 Scopus citations -
"He's more like a 'brother' than a teacher": Politicized caring in a program for African American Males
De Royston, M. M., Vakil, S., Nasir, N. S., Ross, K. M., Givens, J. & Holman, A., 2017, In: Teachers College Record. 119, 4, p. 1-40 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
57 Scopus citations -
Modeling Manhood: Reimagining Black Male Identities in School
Givens, J. R., Nasir, N., Ross, K. & de Royston, M. M. K., Jun 1 2016, In: Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 47, 2, p. 167-185 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
27 Scopus citations -
“Be Real Black for Me”: Imagining BlackCrit in Education
Dumas, M. J. & ross, K. M., Apr 1 2016, In: Urban Education. 51, 4, p. 415-442 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
446 Scopus citations -
“I Do This for All of the Reasons America Doesn't Want Me To”: The Organic Pedagogies of Black Male Instructors
ross, K. M., Nasir, N. S., Givens, J. R., de Royston, M. M. K., Vakil, S., Madkins, T. C. & Philoxene, D., Jan 2 2016, In: Equity and Excellence in Education. 49, 1, p. 85-99 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
28 Scopus citations