The Worst Sort of Lynching: Literacy as Resistance to Curriculum Violence

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Abstract

Amid escalating anti-CRT and anti-DEI policies, this study examines how Black women educators’ literacy practices serve as acts of curricular unforgetting and resistance. Using a two-phase qualitative design, Phase One conducts qualitative content analysis of archival materials from Lugenia Burns Hope, Septima P. Clark, and Ella J. Baker to surface strategies that disrupted oppressive schooling. Phase Two translates these insights into a critical participatory mini-course with contemporary K–12 educators in politically restrictive contexts, generating reflective journals and co-designed lessons. Grounded in Community Cultural Wealth and Hood Feminist Pedagogy, this study illuminates a lineage of literacy as resistance, offering a historically rooted, future-facing roadmap for sustaining race-conscious and justice-oriented curriculum.

Author

• Tilifayea Griffin, Georgia State University