61.035 - Boys' Intersectionality and Schooling: In Pursuit of Interpretative Frameworks, Policy, and Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This international symposium aims to extend intersectionality studies by exploring the social and academic identities of a racially and socioeconomically diverse cohort of boys attending disparate schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. Using various methodological approaches and data sources (e.g., ethnography, interviews, observations, surveys, and student projects), the session papers are a set of empirical investigations conducted by emerging scholars who utilized intersectional frameworks to deeply understand identity construction among early-adolescent Black boys in the US, White working-class boys in the UK, Afro-Caribbean boys in the US and UK, and adolescent Latino boys in the US.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Education in Mulitcultural Contexts Within and Across Subject Areas

Chair

• Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, University of North Dakota

Papers

• Early Adolescent Black Boys, Intersectional Identities, and Single-Sex Schooling - Joseph D. Nelson, Swarthmore College

• Fitting In: White Working-Class Boys' Identity Negotiations of Values, Aspirations, and Motivations Through an Intersectional Framework - Garth Stahl, University of South Australia

• Intersectionality and Immigrant Identities in Public Schools: Exploring Gender–Generational Anxieties Among Afro-Caribbean Boys in London and New York - Derron Wallace, University of Cambridge

• Doing School or Not: Latino Boys' Intersectionality and Academic Identity - Mellie Torres, New York University

Discussant

• Wayne J. Martino, The University of Western Ontario