Teaching Critically in Contentious Times: Black Consciousness, Historical Knowledge, and Educational Policy

Lagarrett J. King; Daniella Cook Sumpter

doi:10.14288/ce.v16i2.187238

Teaching Critically in Contentious Times

Black Consciousness, Historical Knowledge, and Educational Policy

Authors

Lagarrett J. King University at Buffalo, SUNY
Daniella Cook Sumpter University of South Carolina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v16i2.187238

Keywords:

Black consciousness, historical knowledge, education policy, critical race theory

Abstract

Editors’ Introduction to Special Section of Critical Education: Teaching Critically in Contentious Times

Author Biographies

Lagarrett J. King, University at Buffalo, SUNY

LaGarrett J. King is a Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Learning and Instruction in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. Dr. King earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. A former teacher in Texas and Georgia, his research broadly examines how Black history and race is taught and learned in schools and society.

Daniella Cook Sumpter , University of South Carolina

Daniella Cook Sumpter is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education and affiliate faculty in the Department of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, she received her master’s and doctoral degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a social foundations scholar—examining the historical, philosophical, and sociological contexts of education—and teacher education scholar, her community-centered research explores Black education, critical race methodologies, and anti-racist pedagogies. She is guided by the understanding that equitable learning opportunities require authentic collaboration with and in communities traditionally marginalized by schooling. Her research has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, the International Journal of Qualitative Studies, Southern Anthropologist, and edited volumes such as Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches and The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, among others. Dr. Cook Sumpter is Vice President of the American Educational Studies Association and Past President of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association.

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Published

2025-04-30

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025)

Section

Teaching in Contentious Times: Black Consciousness, History Education, and Policy

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