This special issue builds on ideas about Black Joy to situate them in urban education discourse. It introduces the works of education researchers and practitioners committed to conceptualizing and empiricizing Black joy in urban schools and communities. Across our works and through our embodiment, we lift Black Joy as emerging from the intersections of our refusal, eroticism, spirituality, and love. We offer this special issue as a guidepost to encourage praxis toward cultivating Black Joy in research, pedagogy, and practice.
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