Complicated Contradictions Amid Black Feminism and Millennial Black Women Teachers Creating Curriculum for Black Girls

• In Event: 58.061 - Critical Explorations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Education

Abstract

The paper examines how the Sisters of Promise (SOP) curriculum, created by my Black woman teacher colleagues and the author, a millennial Black woman teacher, within the margins of school, aligned with Black feminism and Black feminist pedagogy, and how it reinforced a racist and sexist status quo. I argue that although millennial Black women teachers may embody a Black consciousness, and may use this consciousness as a guide for teaching, their childhood schooling experiences, teacher preparation programs, the school climate in which they teach, and competing neoliberal educational agendas effect what curriculum they create for Black girls. This study informs the field of the importance of researching the curriculum of intervention programming that claim to liberate youth.

Author

• Tiffany M Nyachae, University at Buffalo - SUNY