A FEW WORDS

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Select Chapters in Edited Books

Buras, K. L. (2023).  “They were very low key, but they spoke from experience”: How black teachers taught self-determination at Carver Senior High School in New Orleans. In D. Alridge, J. Hale, & T. Loder-Jackson (Eds.), Schooling the movement: The activism of black educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement (pp. 126-147). South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.

Buras, K. L. (2021). Let’s be for real: Critical race theory, racial realism, and education policy analysis. In M. Lynn & A. D. Dixson (Eds.), Handbook of critical race theory in education (2nd ed., pp. 216-231). New York: Routledge.

Buras, K. L. (2020). The City Fund takes it to “the people”: How top-down reforms imposed on New Orleans will be bankrolled as bottom-up initiatives in cities. In K. deMarrais, B. Herron, & J. Copple (Eds.), Conservative philanthropies and organizations actions shaping U.S. educational policy and practice (pp. 119-152). Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press.

Buras, K. L. (2014). From Carter G. Woodson to critical race curriculum studies: Fieldnotes on confronting the history of white supremacy in educational knowledge and practice. In A. D. Dixson (Ed.), Researching race in education: Policy, practice, and qualitative research (pp. 29-64). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Buras, K. L. (2012). “It’s all about the dollars”: Charter schools, educational policy, and the racial market in New Orleans. In W. H. Watkins (Ed.), The assault on public education: Confronting the politics of corporate school reform (pp. 160-188). New York: Teachers College Press.

Buras, K. L. (2007). Benign neglect? Drowning yellow buses, racism, and disinvestment in the city that Bush forgot. In K. Saltman (Ed.), Schooling and the politics of disaster (pp. 103-122). New York: Routledge.

Select Journal Articles

Buras, K. L. (2021). “We have to get certain numbers to stay open”: Has a charter school network in New Orleans failed to draw the line? Journal of Law and Education, 50(2), 1-65.

Buras, K. L. (2016). The mass termination of black veteran teachers in New Orleans: Cultural politics, the education market, and its consequences [special issue]. The Educational Forum, 80(2), 154-170.

Buras, K. L. (2015). Frederick Douglass High School in New Orleans: School closings, race, and the dangers of policy without history [special issue]. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 17(3/4), 143-161.

Buras, K. L. (2015). “Thank God for Mississippi!”: How disparagement of the South has destroyed public education in New Orleans—and beyond [special issue]. Peabody Journal of Education, 90(3), 355-379. 

Buras, K. L., & Urban South Grassroots Research Collective. (2013). New Orleans education reform: A guide for cities or a warning for communities? (Grassroots lessons learned, 2005-2012). Berkeley Review of Education, 4(1), 123-157.

Buras, K. L. (2013). “We’re not going nowhere”: Race, urban space, and the struggle for King Elementary School in New Orleans [special issue]. Critical Studies in Education, 54(1), 19-32.

Buras, K. L. (2011). Race, charter schools, and conscious capitalism: On the spatial politics of whiteness as property (and the unconscionable assault on black New Orleans). Harvard Educational Review, 81(2), 296-330.

Buras, K. L. (2009). “We have to tell our story”: Neo-Griots, racial resistance, and schooling in the other South. Race Ethnicity and Education, 12(4), 427-453.

Select Policy Briefs

Buras, K. L. (2020, July). From Katrina to COVID-19: How disaster, federal neglect, and the market compound racial inequities. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center.