Kevin L Clay

Black Education

Political Economy

Political Ideology and Activism

CIay, K. L. (Forthcoming). I Guess This Is Activism?: Youth, Political Education, and Free-Market Common Sense. U of Minnesota Press.

Clay, K. L., & Henry, K. L. (Eds.). (2024). The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education. U of Minnesota Press.

Clay, K. L. (2019). “Despite the odds”: Unpacking the politics of Black resilience neoliberalism. American Educational Research Journal, 56(1), 75-110.

Clay, K. L., & Turner III, D. C. (2021). “Maybe you should try it this way instead”: Youth activism amid managerialist subterfuge. American Educational Research Journal, 58(2), 386-419.

Clay, K. L., & Hill, J. D. (2023). The predatory rhetorics of urban development: Neoliberalism and the illusory promise of black middle-class communities. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 20(2), 371-390.

Clay, K. L., & Broege, N. C. (2022). Searching for Amistad in Two school districts: A case study of Black history curriculum implementation in New Jersey. Educational Administration Quarterly, 58(5), 718-745.

Equity and Excellence in Education

VCU Humanities Research Center Residential Fellowship – $3,500 “I Guess This is Activism?”: Youth Politicization and Free-Market Common Sense.

Charles P. Ruch Award for Excellence in Teaching, VCU School of Education

National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship – $27,500 United

Negro College Fund, Frederick D. Patterson Research Fellowship