2024 Theses Doctoral

“I (WE) Know What’s at Stake”: Critically Race-Conscious and Responsive Leadership as a Site of Resistance

Mercedes, Yaribel

This study explored the work of critically race-conscious on the front lines of understanding, addressing, and confronting issues of race, racism, and institutionalized systems of power within their school context. Using personal narratives and critical racial reflections as a qualitative research methodology, this research bears witness to four Black principals using the race card to cultivate spaces filled with love, joy, and genius through high expectations and community.