“…This required a sociocultural perspective, looking at individuals and communities across settings to see the diversity in the ways they practice blackness and the role of space in how blackness gets practiced in distinct places. Sociocultural perspectives, grounded in the work of Lev Vygotsky, center learning within social and cultural processesjoint enterprises between individuals and their communities of practice in which individuals draw on the available tools and resources in their local contexts in pursuit of a goal (Buchter, et al, 2020;Cole, 1996;Halpern, 2018;Kopish, 2016;Lave & Wenger, 1991;Rogoff, 1990;Saxe, 1999;Vygotsky 1978Vygotsky , 1987Wertsch, 1998). A sociocultural approach sees learning as occurring in and across multiple cultural contexts imbued with long histories of tool use mediated by language and other semiotic systems towards the end of transformation at the individual and societal levels (Beckett & Kobayashi, 2020;Nasir & Hand, 2006).…”