Black Education and Black Indigenous Knowledge Production

Amber Chevaughn Johnson is a Black woman scholar pursuing the mundane and everyday invitations for personal and collective liberation and living. As a former middle school educator and current Ph.D. candidate, she explores the multidimensionality of Black folks' lives and the ways they produce space and knowledge. Crossing disciplinary boundaries to explore the interplay between history, Black geographies, Black feminisms, and education, Amber's work explores the intimacies of space, the speculative, and spirit as it concerns Black education, generally, and Black women, specifically. As such, her aim is to produce work for Black folks who hold truths about their lives and their worlds in the bellies of their being, but whose souls forage for language in the dark places. Currently, Amber is working on her dissertation which explores intergenerational Black knowledge (re)production stewarded by Gullah Geechee women in the South Carolina Lowcountry and its interplay with the introduction of "formalized" education for formerly enslaved Black folks immediately following the Port Royal Experiment during the Civil War. 

BOOK CHAPTERS: 

Francois, C. & Johnson, A. C. (Under Review). “Black Feminisms in Education.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Education and Gender. 

Johnson, A. C., Young, A. M., Turner, J. D., (2024). Holy by our own: Theorizing Black girl divine love. In Sealey-Ruiz, Y. & Griffin, A.A. (Eds.) All about Black girl love in education: bell hooks and pedagogies of love. Routledge.

NATIONAL REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Conley, C., Lewis, T., Johnson, A. C. (Upcoming 2025). Black Roots and Reservoirs: Reclaiming Black Education through Radical Everyday Knowledge Cultivation.The American Educational Research Association. Denver, CO. 

Avilez, G., Johnson, A. C., Rucker, J. (Upcoming 2024). The Road to Black Power and the Way Forward: A Teach-In. The American Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. 

Johnson, A. C., Young, A. J., Turner, J.D. (2024). “Holy By Our Own”: Theorizing Black Girl Divine Love. The American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA.

Johnson, A. C. (2024).  Mapping the Material and Metaphysical Imaginaries of Black Women Educators through their Creative Production. The American Educational Research Association. Philadelphia, PA.

Johnson, A. C. (2023). Toward Pedagogies of Feelin: Black Women Educators and Embodied Worlding. The American Educational Studies Association. Louisville, KY.

Johnson, A. C. (2023). Seeds of Hills and Hollows: Journeying Home through My Great-Grandmother’s Garden. The American Folklore Society. Portland, OR.

Johnson, A. C. (2022). “they mining the rivers/we making love real”: Womanist Spatialities of Black Women Educators. The American Educational Studies Association. Pittsburg, PA.

Castle, S., Charity, C., Johnson, A. C. (2021). Situating Black Youth in Reimagining Liberatory Learning Spaces. Critical Race Studies in Education Association. Wilmington, DE.

Castle, S., Charity, C., Johnson, A. C. (2021). Examining the Role of Black Youth in Reimagining Liberatory Learning Spaces. The American Educational Studies Association. Portland, OR.

Johnson, A. C., Shaw, J. (2015). Finding Our Voices: Exposing the Counter Narrative of Learning. ASCD ANNUAL CONFERENCE , Houston, TX

TLPL 481: Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community

TLPL 641: Reading, Cognition, and Instruction: Reading in the Content Areas