Solidarity, Resistance, and Liberation: Conceptualizing Black Feminist Citizenship as a Racial Literacy Project

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Abstract

Citizenship education remains tied to anti-Black character education that reinforces the hegemony of racial liberalism and white supremacy. Drawing on the concepts of racial projects and racial literacy, this conceptual paper constructs a framework for an anti-oppressive racial literacy project in citizenship education grounded in Black feminism. This paper explores three themes of Black feminist citizenship: solidarity, humanizing resistance, and action toward liberation to offer scholars a framework that allows for citizenship education to be reimagined ideologically and in praxis.

Authors

• Ryan Oto, University of Minnesota

• Kristen Duncan, Clemson University