Intersectionality. Marginalized by Intersectionality: Teachers and Scholars of Color Participating in Assemblages of Violence

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Abstract

Using the author's intersectional identities as a queer woman of color, this chapter argues that the rise in identity politics among marginalized teachers and scholars has not only contributed to but maintained assemblages of violence that negatively impact marginalized people and communities. Specifically, this chapter attends to the generational violence that constantly and continuously impacts those who are “in between” questions of race, gender, sexual orientations, and religions. Implications for this study argue for a queering of educational spaces to honor intersectional ways of being, knowing, and doing to think more deeply about how one identifies rather than how communities identify others, a move that only serves to reify the all-too-familiar assemblages of violence.

Author

• Boni Wozolek, Penn State University, Abington College