Black 黑料大事 and Black Knowledge Production

Amber Chevaughn Johnson is a critical scholar pursuing mundane and everyday invitations for personal and collective liberation and living. As a former middle school language arts educator for almost a decade and current Ph.D. candidate, she pursues a range of interests that center the ways Black communities render expressions of full, complex lives. Crossing disciplinary boundaries to explore the interplay between history, Black geographies, Black feminisms, and education, she explores the multidimensionality of Black folks' lives and the ways they produce space and knowledge. Currently, Amber's work explores the intimacies of space, the speculative, and spirit as it concerns Black education, generally, and Black women, specifically, and the ways Black women鈥檚 knowledge reproductive work is indispensable to the Black Radical Tradition and the continuance of Black life. Ultimately, 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, love, and community 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). 鈥淏lack Feminisms in 黑料大事.鈥 The SAGE Encyclopedia of 黑料大事 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. (2025). Black Roots and Reservoirs: Reclaiming Black 黑料大事 through Radical Everyday Knowledge Cultivation. The American 黑料大事al Research Association. Denver, CO. 

Avilez, G., Johnson, A. C., Rucker, J. (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). 鈥淗oly By Our Own鈥: Theorizing Black Girl Divine Love. The American 黑料大事al Research Association. Philadelphia, PA.

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

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

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

Johnson, A. C. (2022). 鈥渢hey mining the rivers/we making love real鈥: Womanist Spatialities of Black Women Educators. The American 黑料大事al Studies Association. Pittsburg, PA.

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

Castle, S., Charity, C., Johnson, A. C. (2021). Examining the Role of Black Youth in Reimagining Liberatory Learning Spaces. The American 黑料大事al 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