The Genius is Not Hidden—They Just Weren’t Looking: Refusing Erasure in the Lives of Black Foster Youth

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Centering the experiences of Black foster youth, this manuscript interrogates how schools and the foster system collude to surveil and marginalize them. Through an intersectional analysis, we highlight their hypervisibility in punitive practices and erasure from narratives of care and opportunity. We call for the use of Black placemaking and thick solidarity as transformative approaches for education researchers and practitioners to reorient inquiry and interventions around care, affirmation, and liberation.