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Center for K–12 Black History and
Racial Literacy Education
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Research

The center will have an affiliated group of researchers from around the world that will make up the Black History and Racial Literacy collective. The research group will seek grants and develop research projects that ask critical questions and solve enduring problems connected to K–12 Black history and racial literacy education.

There are five research domains and questions within the collective.

  • How are Black histories taught in K–12 schools around the U.S. and the world?
  • Who teaches Black history courses in K–12 schools?
  • How are K–12 Black history courses similar or different around the U.S. and the world?
  • What are the Black history curricula that teachers use?
  • What Black history textbooks are available, and who uses them?
  • Where are Black histories taught? 
  • How are teachers and teacher education students learning how to teach Black history?
  • How do students understand Black histories in classrooms?
  • How are students contributing to their Black history knowledge?
  • Which states have specific Black history mandates?
  • How was Black history developed, and by whom?
  • What are the benefits of learning Black history?
  • Where are the non-traditional spaces that Black history is taught?
  • Selected Publications
    7/22/26
    LaGarrett King, PhD shares his research on teaching Black histories dismantling the notion of “Black history as American history” and offers instead a conceptualization of teaching Black histories through Black historical consciousness principles.