Queer of Color Reading Practices: Critiques of Violence and Power

• In Event: Countering Curriculums of Violence

Abstract

Reading is often linked to liberation, but reading is connected to violence as well. This article frames the theory and method behind reading practices from three positions: from a researcher position in how I read student interviews as texts; from a student-as-historian position in how students read historical documents, and from a pedagogical position in how teachers read students. References to reading practices will move between this researcher context, the student-as-historian context, and the pedagogical context. This article utilizes the ideas of negative dialectics and queer reading as tools that help negotiate this tension.

Author

• Tadashi Dozono, California State University Channel Islands