Laura K. Porterfield, Ph.D ., is an Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark . Her research attends to the intersection(s) of visuality, affect, and social life, particularly for, by and about Black women and girls. Her scholarship (see below) focuses on how youth learn about human difference from visual texts and everyday spaces, along with how notions of affect and visuality impact diversity, equity, and inclusion endeavors in K-16 spaces. “I thin

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