Publications

Thomas III, D. J., Johnson, M. W., & Brown, A. L. (2024). The ‘absent Black father’ metaphor: analyzing education’s pathological pursuit of Black male surrogates. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1-18. 

Thomas III, D. J. (2023). Gatekeepers and guardians of black intellectual thought: Black male teacher-coaches combating an anti-black epistemic order. Teachers College Record, 125(1), 3-27.

Thomas III, D. J. (2022). “If I can help somebody”: The civic-oriented thought and practices of Black male teacher-coaches. Theory & Research in Social Education, 50(3), 464-493.

Thomas III, D. J. (2022). Black male teacher-coaches’ utilization of Black counterpublics: The Black family, liberatory fantasy, and resisting the ontological limitation of Blackness. Urban Education, 00420859221140394.

Thomas III, D., Johnson, M., & Brown, A. (2022). (Un) natural saviors and motivators: Analyzing the pathological scripting of Black male teachers in Hollywood films. Educational Studies, 58(4), 458-473.

Brown, A. L., & Thomas III, D. J. (2020). A critical essay on Black male teacher recruitment discourse. Peabody Journal of Education, 95(5), 456-471.

Thomas III, D. J. (2024). Flirting with the fascination and fear of black boys: racial phobias and policing interracial dating in a private catholic high school. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1-15.

Crooks, D., Logan, A., Thomas III, D., Clark, L., & Gill, E. (2023). Legal and political activism: The next wave of student-athlete protest. Sport, Education and Society, 28(4), 434-447.

Thomas III, D. J., Johnson, M. W., Clark, L., & Harrison Jr, L. (2022). When the mirage fades: Black boys encountering antiblackness in a predominantly white Catholic high school. Race Ethnicity and Education, 25(7), 958-977.

Johnson, M. W., & Thomas III, D. (2022). ‘For a good [civic] purpose?’: Black immortal teachings of citizenship. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 17461979221137895.

Thomas III, D. J., Lewis, T. J., & Johnson, M. W. (2023). Centering Black Perspectives Within the Social Studies Curriculum: Carter G. Woodson’s Textbooks and the Teaching of Black Critical Patriotism. The Social Studies, 114(6), 330-342.

Thomas III, D. J., Lewis, T. J., Jones, J., & McDaniel, M. (2023). Towards a Theory of Black Satirical Citizenship Discourse: A Brief History and Lesson Recommendation. Social Education, 87(5), 304-312.