A Neoliberal Creation: Black Hyper(hetero)sexual Perpetrators and Their White Queer Victims

• In Event: Taking Race and Indigeneity Seriously in Queer Educational Research

Abstract

Through the adoption of neoliberal policies that redefine and designate students as both independent and as reflections of society at large, educational institutions ensure a guise of neutrality rather than attending to systemic and systematic racism, classism, and (hetero)sexism. A primary tool of the control mechanism of neoliberalism and its prescribed ideologies is the use and redefining of seemingly inclusive language. Through a QOCC to analyze queer-inclusive schooling policies, it is evident that K-12 educational institutions overall have not actually become more inclusive, but have ensured the continued exclusion and defining of individuals' value based on identity.

Author

• Whitney Neumeyer Roach, Texas Christian University