Dr. Ashley Smith-Purviance scholarship critically analyzes how social structures, educational policies, and institutions shape and reproduce harmful inequalities for Black women and girls. As a community-engaged scholar, her research also explores Black geographies and alternative educational spaces, also known as Black girl spaces, created by and for Black girls. Her article is titled Black Movement Geographies: Roller-Skating, Memory, and Black Women’s Embodied Practices of Fugitivity.

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00064246.2025.2599717