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Knaus, C. B. (2024). The carnage of hopes: Appropriating movements to sustain educational apartheid. Africa Education Review, 20(3), 4–23, https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2024.2389424 

Minthorn, R. Z., Sankofa Waters, M. B., & Knaus, C. B. (2024). Decolonizing higher education (we) through a collaborative (us) program-wide approach. In K. T. Watson, N. Cisneros, L. Pérez Huber, and V. Vélez (Eds.), Handbook of race and refusal in higher education, 228-240. Elgar Publishing. 

Gumbo, M.T., Knaus, C.B. & Gasa, V.G. (2024). Decolonising the African doctorate: Transforming the foundations of knowledge. Higher Education: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01185-2 

Knaus, C. B., & Rogers-Ard, R. (2023). Critical race teacher leadership: Leading antiracist systems change. Urban Education (published online first): https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859231192083 

Knaus, C. B. (2023). Disrupting whiteness as higher education: Towards a systemic decoloniality. International Journal of Educational Development in Africa (Online): https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/IJEDA/article/view/12109 

Pocklington, A., Flanagan, E. J., & Knaus, C. B. (2023). Selling Graduation: Higher Education and the Loaning of Liberation. Essays in Education, 29(1), Article 6. https://openriver.winona.edu/eie/vol29/iss1/6/

Knaus, C. B. (2022). Educational Apartheid: Resisting Whiteness in South African Schools. In D. C. Hucks, Y. Sealey-Ruiz, V. Showunmi, S. C. Carothers, & C. W. Lewis (Eds), Purposeful Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts: Implications for Access, Equity, and Achievement, 277-286. Information Age. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Purposeful-Teaching-and-Learning-in-Diverse-Contexts

Knaus, C. B., Mino, T., & Seroto, J. (2022). Decolonising African Higher Education: Practitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Decolonising-African-Higher-Education-Practitioner-Perspectives-from-Across/Knaus-Mino-Seroto/p/book/9780367745189

Webster, C., & Knaus, C. B. (2021). “I Don’t Think They Like Us”: School Suspensions as Anti-Black Male Practice. Journal of African American Males in Education, 12(1), 66-88. https://jaamejournal.scholasticahq.com/article/22064-i-don-t-think-they-like-us-school-suspensions-as-anti-black-male-practice

Rogers-Ard, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2020). Black Educational Leadership: From Silencing to Authenticity. New York: Routledge. Accessible here: https://www.routledge.com/Black-Educational-Leadership-From-Silencing-to-Authenticity/Rogers-Ard-Knaus/p/book/9780367466138

Knaus, C. B., & Perkins, R. (2020). The virus of whiteness. Africa Is A Country, March 8, 2020. Retrieved at: https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/the-virus-of-whiteness

Rogers-Ard, R., Knaus, C. B., Bianco, M., Brandehoff, R., & Gist, C. ( 2019). The Grow Your Own Collective: A Critical Race Movement to Transform Education. Teacher Education Quarterly, 46(1), 23-34. https://www.gyocollective.org/uploads/1/1/9/4/11945381/the_grow_your_own_collective_a_critical_race_movement_to_transform_education_teacher_education_quarterly__winter_2019.pdf

Kennemer, C., & Knaus, C. B. (2019). Towards Compassionate Care: A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching in Township Schools. Education as Change, 23, 1-21. Open access: https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC/article/view/5995

Knaus, C. B., & Brown II, M. C. (2018). The absence of indigenous African higher education: Contextualizing whiteness, post-apartheid racism, and intentionality. In M. C. Brown II & T. E Dancy II (Eds.), Black colleges across the Diaspora: Global perspectives on race and stratification in postsecondary education (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, Vol. 14), 263-288. Emerald Publishing.

Knaus, C. B. (2018). “If Everyone Would Just Act White”: Education as a Global Investment in Whiteness. In J. Brooks and G. Theoharis (Eds.), Whiteucation: How Privilege, Power and Prejudice is Destroying School and Society. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Knaus, C. B. (2017). Push Out: Racial Dynamics at a Turnaround School. Rethinking Schools, 31(2), 34-37.

Knaus, C. B. (2017). “A Fairy Tale in a Song is No Message”: Leadership Lessons from Oliver Mtukudzi and The Black Spirits. In T. Watson, F. Beachum, & J. Brooks (Eds.), Educational Leadership and Music, 137-148. Information Age Publishing.

Knaus, C. B., & Brown, M. C, II (2016). Whiteness is the New South Africa: Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism. New York: Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051570

Knaus, C. B. (2016). “We Talk But We Don’t Say Shit”: Education and the Silencing of Voice. In T. Marsh & N. Croom (Eds.), Envisioning a Critical Race Praxis in K–12 Leadership Through Counter-Storytelling, 3–23. New York: Information Age Publishing.

Chetty, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2016). Why South Africa's Universities Are in the Grip of a Class Struggle. The Conversation, 1/13/2016: http://theconversation.com/why-south-africas-universities-are-in-the-grip-of-a-class-struggle-50915

Marsh, T., & Knaus, C. B. (2015). Fostering Movements or Silencing Voices: Learning from Egypt and South Africa, Leading Against Racism. International Journal of Multicultural Education, Special Issue on Anti-Racist Leadership, 17(1), 188-210.
Available: http://ijme-journal.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/969/1039

Knaus, C. B. (2014). What if We All Wore Hoodies? Educational Silencing of Black Male Voices. In V. E. Evans-Winters & M. C. Bethune (Eds.), (Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom, 163-186. Boston, MA: Sense Publishers. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-6209-785-8

Knaus, C. B. (2014). Seeing What They Want to See: Racism and Leadership Development in Urban Schools. The Urban Review, 46(3), 420-444. Available here.  

Rogers-Ard, R., & Knaus, C. B. (2013). From Colonization to RESPECT: How Federal Education Policy Fails Children and Educators of Color. ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal and Social Policy: Vol. 3(1), 1-32. Available at: http://ecipublications.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=ijlsp

Knaus, C. (2013). Developing Urban Youth Voice: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Classrooms. In R. Brock & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), School Sucks! Arguments for School Change in Urban Education, 9-42. New York: Peter Lang. https://www.amazon.com/School-Sucks-Alternative-Educational-Psychology-dp-1433117053/dp/1433117053/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Knaus, C. (2013). You Are the Ones Who Need to Hear Us: The Role of Youth Voice in a Democracy. In R. Brock & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), School Sucks! Arguments for School Change in Urban Education, 64-98. New York: Peter Lang. https://www.amazon.com/School-Sucks-Alternative-Educational-Psychology-dp-1433117053/dp/1433117053/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Knaus, C. B. (2011). Shut Up and Listen: Teaching Writing that Counts in Urban Schools. New York: Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108588

Knaus, C. B. (2006). Race, Racism, & Multiraciality in American Education. Washington DC: Academia. https://www.amazon.com/Race-Racism-Multiraciality-American-Education/dp/1933146265