35.082-14 - Queer of Color Critique as a Critical and Postfoundational Perspective in Educational Research

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium advances the emerging scholarship of queer of color critique in educational research and curriculum studies. As a critical/post-foundational perspective, queer of color critique foregrounds racialized and sexual minority views in political, sociocultural, and educational experiences. The presenters offer case studies of homophobic violence, queer migration, young adult offenders, and political organizing to employ queer of color critique within and outside of K-12 and post-secondary institutions. As interventions into how diversity is reconceptualized, they engage with the realities of marginalized groups that often exceed the logics and practices of equity and social justice in education. Yet it is in spaces of the beyond where the interruptive power of queer of color subjects wields their sharpest and most transformative critiques.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 1: Critical and Post-Foundationalist Perspectives and Practices

Chair

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Northern Kentucky University

Papers

• "Am I Gonna Have to Slap the Shit Outta Somebody Today?" Queer Youth of Color and Homophobic Violence in Urban Schools - Edward Brockenbrough, University of Rochester

• "I Walked All the Way Back to L.A.": An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Youth Migration - Cindy Cruz, University of California - Santa Cruz

• "Why Can't I Be a Professional Jane and Fincher?" Education and Training Needs of Racialized Young Adult Offenders and Queer Youth of Color - Lance Trevor McCready, University of San Francisco

• "The Struggle for LGBT Equality Goes On": Ladlad's Cruel Optimism in the Aftermath of Loss - Roland Sintos Coloma, Northern Kentucky University