About Centering Possibility In Black Education
Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners…
Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education
Chezare A. Warren chronicles the transition of a cohort of young Black males from Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men to their early experiences in higher education. A rich and closely observed account of a mission-driven school and its students, Urban Preparation makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how young men of color can best be served in schools throughout the United States today.

ARTICLES
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Warren, C. A., Coles, J. A., & Jenkins, D. A. (2025). Playing in the dark? Blackness, humanity, and studies of Black life in education 2012-2022. Review of Educational Research.
Warren, C. A. & Wood, D. (2023). Rupturing the Black-White binary: Critical race theory, mourning and pathways to racial justice. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
Legette, K. B., Rogers, L. O., & Warren, C. A. (2022). Humanizing student–teacher relationships for black children: Implications for teachers’ social–emotional training. Urban Education, 57(2), 278-288.
Acosta, M. M., Griffin, A. A., King, J. E., & Warren, C. A. (2022). Radical futures of Black literacies and Black education. Research in the Teaching of English, 57(1), 89-94.
Warren, C. A. (2021). From morning to mourning: A meditation on possibility in Black education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 54(1), 92-102.
Warren, C. A., Andrews, D. J. C., & Flennaugh, T. K. (2022). Connection, antiblackness, and positive relationships that (re) humanize black boys’ experience of school. Teachers College Record, 124(1), 111-142.
Warren, C. A. (2020). Meeting myself: Race-gender oppression and a genre study of Black men teachers’ interactions with Black boys. Race Ethnicity and Education, 23(3), 367-391.
Warren, C. A., & Coles, J. A. (2020). Trading spaces: Antiblackness and reflections on Black education futures. Equity & Excellence in Education, 53(3), 382-398.
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Warren, C. A., & Bonilla, C*. (2018). Care and the influence of student-adult stakeholder interactions on young Black men’s college aspirations. Multicultural Perspectives, 20(1), 13-24.
Warren, C. A., Presberry, C.*, & Louis, L.* (2022). Examining teacher dispositions for evidence of (transformative) social and emotional competencies with Black boys: The case of three urban high school teachers. Urban Education, 57(2), 251-277.Warren, C. A. & Venzant Chambers, T. T. (2020). The imperative of social foundations to (urban) education research and practice. Educational Researcher, 49(5), 369-375.
Marciano, J. E., & Warren, C. A. (2019). Writing toward change across Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) projects. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 62(5), 485-494.
Warren, C. A. & Marciano, J. E. (2018). Activating student voice through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): Policy-making that strengthens urban education reform. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 31(8), 684-707.
Warren, C. A. (2016). “We learn though our struggles”: Nuancing notions of urban Black male academic preparation for postsecondary success. Teachers College Record, 118(6), 1-38.
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Thomas, E. E., & Warren, C. A. (2017). Making it relevant: How a Black male teacher sustained professional relationships through culturally responsive discourse. Race Ethnicity and Education, 20(1), 87-100.
Warren, C. A. (2015). Scale of Teacher Empathy for African American Males (S-TEAAM): Measuring teacher conceptions and the application of empathy in multicultural classroom settings. Journal of Negro Education, 84(2), 154-174.
Warren, C. A. (2015). Conflicts and contradictions: Conceptions of empathy and the work of good-intentioned White female teachers. Urban Education, 50(5), 572-600.
Warren, C. A. & Hotchkins, B. K. (2015). Teacher education and the enduring significance of “false empathy”. The Urban Review, 47(2), 266-292.
Warren, C. A. (2014). Perspective divergence and the miseducation of Black boys…like me. Journal of African American Males in Education, 5(2), 134-149.
Warren, C. A. (2014). Towards a pedagogy for the application of empathy in culturally diverse classrooms. The Urban Review, 46(3), 395-419.
Warren, C. A. & Lessner, S.** (2014). “Who has family business?” Exploring the role of empathy in student-teacher interactions. Perspectives on Urban Education, 11(2), 122-131.
Warren, C. A. (2013). The utility of empathy for White female teachers’ culturally responsive interactions with Black male students. Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 3(3), 175-200.
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Jenkins, D. A. & Warren, C. A. (2024). Towards anti-carceral leadership: Remaking public schools to refuse Black students’ surveillance, containment, and control. Educational Policy, 38(3), 624-641.
Warren, C. A. (2022). Toward an antiracist restorative justice approach with Black children. Student Experience Research Network.
Warren, C. A. & Lane, B. (2024). “I just want them to be free”: Black boys and the imperative for secure emotional bonds with Black educators. In D. Stanley (Ed.) #BlackEducatorsMatter: Black educators as freedom fighters amidst antiblackness (pp. 5-17). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Warren, C. A., & Hancock, S. D. (2017). White women’s work? Unpacking its meaning and significance for the contemporary schooling of diverse youth. In S. D. Hancock & C. A. Warren (Eds.). White women’s work: Examining the intersectionality of teaching, identity, and race (pp. vii-xiii). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Henry, K. L., & Warren, C. A. (2017). The evidence of things not seen? Race, pedagogies of discipline, and White women teachers. In S. D. Hancock & C. A. Warren (Eds.). White women’s work: Examining the intersectionality of teaching, identity, and race (pp. 177-199). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Warren, C. A. (2016). Making relationships work: Elementary-age Black males and the schools that serve them. In S. R. Harper & J. L. Wood (Eds.) Advancing Black male student success from preschool through Ph.D. (pp. 21-43). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.