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Pizarro, M., & Kohli, R. (2020). "I stopped sleeping": Teachers of Color and the impact of racial battle fatigue. Urban Education, 55(7), 967–991.
Racial battle fatigue is the term used to describe the psychological, emotional, and physiological toll of confronting racism. This study explores the toll of racism on teachers of color who work in a predominately White profession.

Kinloch, V., Burkhard, T., & Graham, D. (2020). Storying youth lives: Centering equity in teaching and teacher education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 33(1), 66–79.
This article presents youth stories as essential to social justice, social change, and equity in education. The researchers ask: In what ways do youth stories encourage us to better attend, or be "answerable," to the important work of equity in teaching and teacher education, and what does this look like? The stories speak to resilience connected to Black people's history of perseverance in the face of institutionalized oppression and inequalities.

Hess, J. (2019). Moving beyond resilience education: Musical counterstorytelling. Music Education Research, 21(5), 488–502.
This article draws on Critical Race Theory to critique the manner in which resilience education encourages docility, adaptation, and vulnerability in youth in response to oppressive conditions rather than addressing oppression directly. The author suggests songwriting with students to create powerful musical counter-stories that shift deficit discourse to focus on strengths.

Lam, K. D. (2015). Teaching for liberation: Critical reflections in teacher education. Multicultural Perspectives, 17(3), 157–162.
This article shares a critical reflection of one teacher educator's work over the last five years teaching in both public and private universities in the U.S. Midwest. The author reflects on his course "Diversity in Education" and concludes by offering a pedagogy of resilience and radical hope premised on the idea that intellectual work is meant to be liberationist.

Brody, G. H., Yu, T., Chen, E., & Miller, G. E. (2020). Persistence of skin-deep resilience in African American adults. Health Psychology, 39(10), 921–926.
This research suggests that for low-socioeconomic status African American youths, the ability to maintain high self-control and to persist with efforts to succeed may act as a double-edged sword, facilitating academic success and adjustment while undermining physical health.