Troubling Gender and Sexuality: Meditations on Performances of (Un)Gendering in Black Educational Spaces

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

There has been a proliferation of scholarship regarding the benefits of same-race teacher-student composition in educational research (Gersheshon et al., 2022; Warren, 2020). Similarly, there have been emergent calls to diversify the teaching workforce with more Black teachers to reap the anticipated human capital gains of this scholarship to further support the American polity (Carver-Thomas, 2018). However, we need to take pause and reflect upon the specific qualities and attributes of Black teachers, with all of their intersecting identities, that will best support Black educational success. This session sheds light on the dynamic choreographies of gender Black students & teachers enact to navigate this terrain by indexing and undermining essentialist notions of race and gender.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Trauma Pouring: On the Uses, Costs, and Risks of Re-Telling Racial Trauma - Caleb E. Dawson, University of California - Merced

• Choreographies of Gender: Disrupting Anti-Blackness and Its Others Through a Queer Black Male Perspective - Jessica Lee Stovall, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Darion A. Wallace, Stanford University

• All-Black Male Spaces and Their Potentialities for Facilitating and Critiquing Cis-Heteropatriarchal Masculinity - Gene F. McAdoo, University of California - Los Angeles; Jacques P. Lesure, Brown University

• Ballroom Pedagogy: Asset-Based Pathways to Culturally Sustaining and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Teaching and Learning - Shamari Reid, New York University

Discussant

• Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, The Ohio State University